Crush Depth: The Nightmarish Loss of USS Thresher
USS Thresher (SSN-593) was tragically Lost The first of its class and leading the way to sweeping US Navy Submarine[…]
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Tag: History
The First American Jet Engine. the Hush-Hush Boys | When G.E. Received Frank Whittle’s Invention
First American Jet Engine A 1952 documentary about the first American jet engine, which was (Sir) Frank Whittle’s invention. In[…]
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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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The Monster Bomber Germany Would Do Anything to Destroy – Petlyakov Pe-8
Petlyakov Pe-8 bomber In May of 1942, a Petlyakov Pe-8 bomber took off from the Soviet Union and headed to[…]
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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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Messerschmitt Bf 109, Things You Might Not Know About The German Aircraft | With Eric “Winkle” Brown
Things you might now know about the Messerschmitt Bf 109. Includes a rare interview with legendary British test pilot Eric[…]
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History of the MiG
Russian Aircraft Corporation “MiG” Mikoyan-Gurevich and their stable of Cold War icons Russian Aircraft Corporation “MiG”, commonly known as Mikoyan[…]
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This WW2 Medal of Honor Soldier was Classified to Save His Life
WW2 Medal of Honor Soldier A young Army Corporal waited nervously for the guards to arrive. He looked around the[…]
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