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Douglas A-4 Skyhawk: That Little Attack Jet That Could
WEBJul 25, 2018 · The Scooter That Never Was. In 1958 Douglas proposed the A4D-4. Essentially the design was a significantly enlarged A-4C with revised (conventional) swept wings and empennage and a bubble canopy. This Skyhawk variant was envisioned as a dedicated long range all weather jet capable of the delivery of …
The T-28 Trojan: North American Aviation's Next and Last Great …
WEBJan 27, 2018 · The Sound of Naval Aviation for Decades. The throaty snarl of Trojan engines powering student aviator-flown T-28s could be heard almost continuously along the Gulf Coast during the late 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and into the early 1980s. Entire generations of Navy and Marine Corps pilots learned to fly in T-28Bs and made their first carrier landings in T-28Cs- many of them aboard the Blue Ghost ...
Movie Star Aircraft: The P-51 Mustang in Top Gun: Maverick
WEBMar 29, 2020 · Cruise’s Mustang, registered as N51EW, was built as an F-6K-15-NT with a Construction Number (CN) of 111-36123 at North American’s Dallas assembly plant in 1944. P-51Ks and F-6Ks were built in Dallas and differed from the D models primarily in the propeller department. Ks were equipped with an 11 foot Aeroproducts prop as …
Six Things You Probably Never Knew About the Mighty A-6 Intruder
WEBThe Navy awarded Grumman a contract to build eight A2F-1s in February 0f 1958. The first delivery of an A-6A Intruder to the US Navy was to the A-6 Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) VA-42 Green Pawns on February 7 th 1962. The A-6A became operational with VA-75 Sunday Punchers for the first time in 1963. A-6As had both fuselage and wing air brakes.
The Boeing YC-14: Too Advanced For Its Own Good
WEBThe YC-14 first flew on August 9 th 1976- nearly a year after the YC-15 first took to the skies. The two YC-14 prototypes (serial numbers 72-1873 and 72-1874) were first tested at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) in California. The YC-14 was flown as slowly as 59 knots and as fast as 520 knots at 38,000 feet.
Broken Windows and Warheads on Foreheads: The F-105 …
WEBThe National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB has a beautiful example on display. The F-105 was officially retired on June 4, 1983 accompanied by a flight of 24 aircraft fly-over in a Diamonds-on-Diamonds formation fling over Hill AFB, Utah. Flyover of F-105s during the aircraft’s retirement ceremony at Hill AFB ...
Why Did Eastern Airlines Fail? - Avgeekery.com
WEBJan 18, 2021 · Eastern’s Demise Was Painful to Watch No Matter Who You Were. It was the airline that was destroyed by infighting and a soft economy. The airline headed was by World War I ace Eddie Rickenbacker. For a time, Eastern Airlines was known for high quality service with innovative technology. The airline was the first to fly the L1011 and the ...
Flying The Rare Lufthansa Airbus A340-600 - Avgeekery.com
WEBFlying Lufthansa’s Airbus A340-600 In 2023: Once in Munich, I’ll admit that I stood at the window looking at the A340-600 parked at gate L23 for quite some time. Personally, I think the A340-600 is one of the best-looking aircraft ever built. That long skinny fuselage, with those four large engines. Plus, the realization of something I’d ...
The McDonnell “Moonbat” Was Radically Advanced…for 1940
WEBThe XP-67 Could Have Been a Contender. During the late 1930s and early 1940s there were many prototype aircraft dreamed up, drawn up, built up, and shot down by the United States Army Air Corps ().Sandwiched between the unremarkable Vultee XP-66 Vanguard and the equally unremarkable Vultee XP-68 Tornado …