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#HappyEaster #Easter2022 - Good morning! I wish everyone a very happy, safe, wonderful Easter Sunday! #Kindness #Peace

@kadonkey @clark_aviation @Sylvia70485099 @AFmuseum @one0nine @majestic_air @AvHistoryOgre @centerepublican @MartinKoenigsb2 @deecanadian @PhilLoder @RupakChatto @sitnikov_94 4/ I can't find a good explanation for the mid-engine. "My" P-63 is a P-63E (13 built) repainted as an unarmed RP-63A/C "Pinball" Target aircraft. A pilot would fly it. It had 1,000 pounds of extra armor and sensors that lit the prop when hit by others' harmless frangible ammo.

@kadonkey @clark_aviation @Sylvia70485099 @AFmuseum @one0nine @majestic_air @AvHistoryOgre 3/ The P-63's architecture was (almost) unique. The engine was behind the pilot while the 37mm cannon was in the nose and shot through the prop. The similar P-39↖️ shows this best.↗️↘️↙️ are P-63 fighters. The USSR received about 73% of the 3,303 P-63s built. France got 300. #P63

@deecanadian @centerepublican @templefugate @107Kazuno @sitnikov_94 @VGaglianiCaputo @CalaisFrom @Burntime0101 @REDBARON_Xbox @DesertStorm24ID @MartinKoenigsb2 @Pompadour1158 @AlexanderZPain @majestic_air @NewarkAirMus 5/ #Sukhoi #Su24 - The Soviets quickly decided the variable intakes weren't worth the weight since the Su-24's mission was ground attack/strike. Thus Fencer-B and subsequent models deleted them. Top speed dropped to Mach 1.35. Su-24M (Fencer-D) Су-24М модификации (Modified)...

@centerepublican @MartinKoenigsb2 @amtrackmacon3 @mini_weapons @6xW_a @F111RAF @templefugate @teaselstudio1 @one0nine 10/ The long-range, all-weather strike F-111F (106 built) could fly down to 200' at night. 25,100 lbs.thrust per engine. 1,452 mph; 2,970 mile range. Apparently in the #GulfWar it made 2,400+ sorties and destroyed more enemy tanks than the US Army.. https://t.co/gGiKZYRO21

@centerepublican @deecanadian @107Kazuno @REDBARON_Xbox @milmodelscene @RupakChatto @seanboy_50 @gaugau428 @6xW_a @64eAh 4/ The B-17B ↖️ had a bigger rudder and flaps.
The B-17C did away with the side blisters. ↗️
The B-17D ↙️↘️added twin mounts on top and bottom, etc. Frankly, I don't see them so perhaps someone can clarify.

#avGeek #avgeeks #aviationlovers #aviation #aviationphotography - The Messerschmitt Me 264 Amerika bomber was to have flown from France or the Azores to bomb NYC, etc. Three prototypes built. @clark_aviation @RentmeisterMarc @Sylvia70485099 1/

@DesertStorm24ID @Robofemoid @clark_aviation @chicaran1 @ITM_archives @BoeingDefense @MartinKoenigsb2 @AvHistoryOgre @ron_eisele @arjandenboer @Burntime0101 5/ TY @DavidBurhenn for noting the first DC-3s were Douglas Sleeper Transports with Pullman-style fold-down beds and upper slat windows. The chair seat only daytime DC-3 followed. Does anyone have a good interior photo of the DST with the beds folded up? https://t.co/qffaKhulrB

#OTD #History #aviation #planes - #USSR Antonov ANT-20bis (TL/TR), the world's largest plane, and successor to the luxury (peak 7,200 hp!?!) ANT-20 Maxim Gorky (BL/BR) crashed tragically Dec. 14, 1942, killing all 36 onboard. Great article:
https://t.co/UENoNII5Ed @sitnikov_94

#PearlHarbor80 #OTD 12/7/1941 3:42 am Hawaii time, the US Navy minesweeper Condor spots a periscope outside the harbor entrance channel into Pearl Harbor. Hours later, a PBY Catalina flying boat marks the spot, and then destroyer USS Ward depth-charges it, claiming a kill.