Flightdeck Friday – Bonus Edition
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Flightdeck Friday – Russian Edition (MAKS 2007) (II)
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Flightdeck Friday: Boeing F4B-4
trans·for·ma·tion (trÄns’fÉ™r-mÄ’shÉ™n): the act of changing in form or shape or appearance. 1928. Boeing is rolling the dice and has invested its own money in developing two prototype aircraft it hopes to demonstrate to the Navy and later the Army as replacements for the F3B, currently serving with the Navy, and PW-9, serving with the…
“Air Raid Pearl Harbor. This is Not A Drill.” *
* Telegraph from Patrol Wing Two Headquarters warning of the attack on Pearl Harbor Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives: Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and…
Flightdeck Friday: Flight of the Truculent Turtle
Fifty-five hours and 18minutes. 11,236.6 nautical miles. No GPS, no inertial nav, no fly-by-wire, no computers save the biologic ones and the whizwheels. No movies, no SATCOM, no sleeper seats. No in-flight refueling – no stops. No digital weather radar. Four aircrew, one nine-month old baby ‘roo and 8,592 gallons of AVGAS. Non-stop, Austalia to…
Flightdeck Friday: Goodyear F2G Corsair
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