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Cutaway Thursday: Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
My all time favorite of the “Century Series” fighters, the first flight of the F-104 was this week, on 4 March 1954. Strangely, it had a relatively short career with the USAF but enjoyed far more...
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The Wright Brothers
Like Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photo of Iwo Jima, this first flight was immortalized almost by accident . I just finished David McCullough’s wonderful book on the Wright Brothers. He did some thorough...
View ArticleA Simple System with Profound Consequences
Among the many programs I have been watching on Amazon Prime and Netflix is a short series on airliner crashes over the years, with detailed explanations as to the causes. Actually in checking imdb,...
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Cutaway Thursday: McDonnell Douglas F-4X-VG
The McDonnell Douglas F-4X-VG was a design proposal to improve the carrier landing characteristics of the venerable F-4 Phamtom 2 in US Navy service. This eventually lost out to Grumman’s F-14 Tomcat...
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Iron Birds
Static test airframes, or more commonly called, “iron birds” are partially built, non-flying airframes or old formerly flying airframes that are used by agencies and manufacterers to test either the...
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Cutaway Thursday: CH-53K King Stallion
Since xbradtc blogged about this earlier in the week, I’m thowing up a cutaway for the latest incarnation of the western world’s (i.e. non-Russian) largest helicopter (that’d be helo to the NAVY/USMC...
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Cutaway Thursday: HAL Tejas
The HAL Tejas is a 4+ generation single seat, single engine multirole fighter built primarily for the Indian Airforce and Navy. Slightly smaller than the F-16 the Tejas first flew on 4 January 2001 as...
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Cutaway Thursday: Boeing 2707
Last week we did the Boeing Model 733 which evolved in to the Boeing 2707 (the 2 perhaps indicating that it was a mach 2 capable airplane). Anyway, this is a far better cutaway of the similiar...
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Cutaway Thursday: Boeing Model 733
The Boeing Model 733 was the never-to-be-built US counterpart to the European Concorde and Soviet TU-144. Subsequent research is unclear whether the design started at a delta wing planform or started...
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Cutaway Thursday: Ilyushin IL-76MF “Candid”
Apologies to reader but I’ve been a little overwhelmed with other (read personal) things over the past few weeks. Anyway this week’s cutaway is Ilyushin’s IL-76 (NATO codenamed “Candid”). The Candid...
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Cutaway Thursday: Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
My all time favorite of the “Century Series” fighters, the first flight of the F-104 was this week, on 4 March 1954. Strangely, it had a relatively short career with the USAF but enjoyed far more...
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Cutaway Thursday: Hawker Typhoon
Perhaps better known as the Tiffy to our cousins across the pond, this week, 24 February 1940, to be exact, marked the 74th anniversary of her first flight. Learn more about her here.
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MAAM P-61B Black Widow Restoration Update
The MAAM’s P-61B Black Widow as she currently appears. We’ve written before about the Mid Atlantic Air Museum’s Northrop P-61 Black Widow here. Northrop’s P-61 Black Widow is the only night-fighter...
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Cutaway Thursday: Grumman A-6E TRAM Intruder
An airplane I’ve been learning a lot about lately. Head on over to the Intruder Association to learn more.
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Cutaway Thursday: Chance-Vought OS-2U Kingfisher
Today I’m headed to the National Naval Aviation Museum so in that vein: More about her here. FLY NAVY!
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Rockwell’s HiMAT RPRV-870 (part 1)
The Rockwell International RPRV-8870 HiMAT. Rockwell International’s RPRV-870 (Remote Piloted Research Vehicle) HiMAT (Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology) was a joint USAF/NASA program to develop...
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