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Warbirds

Warbird is a term used to describe vintage military aircraft. Although the term originally implied piston driven aircraft from the World War II era, it is now often extended to include all military aircraft, including jet powered aircraft, that are no long ...

Popularity: 16%
Posted: 3 days ago

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Lightnings After the Dance

Handwritten on the back of this small snapshot is "1946, Memphis Tenn." During World War II, over 10,000 P-38 Lightnings were produced by Lockheed, and was the only US fighter that remained in continuous production throughout the entire duration of America ...

Popularity: 14%
Posted: 3 weeks ago

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Restored Lockheed P-38 “Glacier Girl” UP CLOSE Video Study

This is a close-up video study of the famous Lockheed P-38 Glacier Girl that was recovered from under 268 feet of glacier ice in Greenland in 1992. Most of the video was taken at the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, Calif. in March and April, 2007. The take ...

Popularity: 42%
Posted: 1 month ago

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The experimental ordering of fighters demonstrated the lack of confidence between official deciders and users

Three fighters have been ordered in experimental series by the French Ministre de l'Air while they have been previously rejected by the official technical survey. The Dewoitine 551 have been rejected without any trial because the prototype - a very promisi ...

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Posted: 1 month ago

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Raid on Sète

Smoke and B-24s fill the skies over Southern France on June 24, 1944. Sunday, June 25, 1944, dawned bright and sunny over southern France.The invasion of northern France was all of 19 days old, and the Allied planners were going full-steam ahead with their ...

Popularity: 11%
Posted: 3 months ago

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America's First Rocketplane

Acme Telephoto wirephoto with an embedded caption. This is the only known photo of the MX-324 during powered flight, although there are a number of images extant that were taken during the initial glide testing. Back "in the day", it was fairly common for ...

Popularity: 36%
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 ...

Popularity: 25%
Posted: 3 months ago

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Lockheed C-69 Constellation 43-10315 (c/n 1967)

Batman60 posted a photo Doctored image, but supposedly 43-10315. The seventh Constellation built, delivered as C-69 43-10315 to the USAAF in February 1945. Converted to L-049 and later L-049D. Owned by El Al from March 1951 until sale as G-ARVP in February ...

Popularity: 27%
Posted: 4 months ago

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Pacific Photo Lightnings

The qualities that made the Lockheed P-38 Lightning such an excellent long-range fighter quickly were quickly recognized as the same ones needed as a successful photo reconnaissance aircraft. So throughout the long production run of the P-38, a number of a ...

Popularity: 9%
Posted: 4 months ago

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Nakajima Ki-43 Oscar

The Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa was a single-engine land-based tactical fighter used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force in World War II. The army designation was "Army Type 1 Fighter" the Allied codename was "Oscar", but it was often called the "Army Zero ...

Popularity: 23%
Posted: 4 months ago