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Composites - The Future Materials

In this post, you'll get to know about composites and their uses. For many years, aircraft designers could propose theoretical designs that they could not build because the materials needed to construct them did not exist. (The term "unobtainium" is someti ...

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Posted: 1 month ago

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MCAS Yuma Airshow 2012

Bell Boeing MV-22B Osprey Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 561 (VMM-561) Pale Horse On March 17, 2012, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma held their 50th Annual Airshow. This year the airshow featured the United States Air Force Thunderbirds, and also celebrate ...

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Posted: 2 months ago

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The Centennial of US Naval Aviation – Pensacola, Florida 2011

2011marked the Centennial of US Naval Aviation , a service that started very humbly with only 2 Curtiss Pusher Biplanes in1911. The first take off from a warship was completed by Eugene Ely on November 14th, 1910 in Virginia from the cruiser USS Birmingham ...

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Posted: 3 months ago

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Semper Fi

This is a history of our Marine Corp. It gives information on their background and some past and present equipment. It also has some famous quotes from and about Marines. This project sadly should have taken a shorter time to do. Evan Siderits and I starte ...

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Posted: 3 months ago

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F-35B Ship Suitability Testing

Lockheed Martin posted this video showing some of the testing of the F-35B Lightning II aboard the USS Wasp . The Wasp (LHD-1)is an amphibious assault ship, capable of hosting a variety of aircraft such as the AV-8B Harrier, MV-22 Osprey, CH-46 Sea Knight, ...

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Posted: 4 months ago

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Harriers come past again

2 Spanish Armada Navy Harrier AV-8B came past again today, a fast pass followed by a low and slow past. Underneath they had extra drop fuel tanks which hold about 1200litres of fuel, each. In combat, these are used to increase combat range to a target and ...

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Posted: 6 months ago

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Osprey Issue Harrier Units and Tojo Aces Books

Osprey Publishing have released two new aviation books this month. First off is AV-8B Harrier II Units of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm , "The AV-8B is the only tactical aircraft that can deploy with Marine forces on amphibious assault ships an ...

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Posted: 7 months ago