CH-53 Helicopter Air Lifting Super Heavy Military Vehicles
CH-53 Helicopter Air Lifting Super Heavy Military Vehicles US Marines conduct an external lift during CH-53 Tactics in support of[…]
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The Worst Possible Fate For a B-29 Crew?
The Worst Possible Fate For a B-29 Crew? WW2 History This is the story of Frederick Allen Stearns, and his[…]
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The Helicopter you could Hear Seven or Eight Miles Away
Hughes XH-17 Thirty years before achieving the pinnacle of helicopter technology with the design of the legendary AH-64 Apache, the[…]
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Its Weapons Were Half Its Weight – Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk Leading Douglas aviation engineer Ed Heinemann wanted to take a different approach when designing a replacement for[…]
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France and Germany Worked on a Fighter Jet You Never Heard Of
Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet The Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet was born at a time when the world desperately needed collaboration. During the[…]
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The Plane that could Receive a Panzer Attack and Keep Flying
Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik Vasily Emelianenko was nervous. His entire unit of rugged Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik ground-attack aircraft had just decimated[…]
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The WW2 Fighter with a Jet Stuffed in Its Tail – Ryan FR Fireball
WW2 Fighter The unconventional Ryan FR Fireball was the only fighter in operational service to be powered by both piston[…]
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How the Smallest Fighter of WW2 Scared the Luftwaffe Out of the Sky – Yakovlev Yak-3
Yakovlev Yak-3 Germany’s early advance through the Soviet Union had been fierce and unstoppable, thanks in part to the air[…]
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Hitler’s Final “Escape” – The BV 138
Hitler’s Final “Escape” – The BV 138 Despite plenty of initial difficulties and a lengthy development process in the early[…]
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The First and Only Business Jet with an Afterburner
Garrett Falcon 20 This striking photograph captures the Garrett Falcon 20, a French business jet with a one-of-a-kind feature: an[…]
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