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Flightdeck Friday: Beginnings - The Curtiss N-9 and BuAer

August 10th, 2007 2 Comments

Hi all - this is the first post the Scribe wanted me to put up for you all. He’s always muttering up us kids and needing to ‘know our roots.’ So when all us apprentices started pulling his beard about being around since Methusela, well, he kinda went all Old Testament on us apprentices and [...]

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