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DC3 – TWA – Illustration numérique au stylet – Version noir et blanche – à retrouver dans mon calendrier 2023 https://t.co/iOi0zH6wbY

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2022-11-22

Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II’s three main blocks are F-35A (USAF), F-35B (STOVL for USMC) and F-35C (USN). Others include F-35I (Israel) and proposed F-35D and CF-35. So why are “booms” called that? Here's more jargon you'll love.

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2022-11-21

A400M – Touraine – Illustration numérique au stylet – Version noir et blanche – à retrouver dans le calendrier 2023 https://t.co/iOi0zH6wbY

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2022-11-19

72 years ago, Lt. Russell J. Brown, from 16th FS, downed a MiG-15 near the Yalu River while flying a Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star (Nov 8, 1950). This may have been the very first time a jet was shot down by another jet in combat.

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2022-11-08

Douglas SBD Dauntless / A-24 Banshee carrier-borne and land-based dive-bomber saw extensive action in the Pacific. At Midway, SBDs damaged the IJN carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu, leading to loss of all four. 1/ TY

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2022-10-29

A cutaway drawing of the then "revolutionary" Grumman F-14 Tomcat from the January 1970 issue of the Popular Mechanics Magazine. Artwork by Fred Wolff.

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2022-10-14

Saunders-Roe SR/45 Flying Boat is the largest all-metal flying boat ever built. 3 made. 1 flew in 1952. Flying boats could takeoff from any long calm body of water, but new passenger jets like the De Havilland Comet obsoleted them.

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2022-10-05

Shocks on shocks on shocks

Beautiful shot of a transonic F-35 from Gravity Images on IG

📷 https://t.co/5s3APNCYg5

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2022-09-17

Although transpacific service was halted by the outbreak of WWII, the war years were transformational for air travel. Not only were new and improved aircraft developed, but a network of airfields was built across the Pacific as part of the war effort.

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2022-08-31

- In 1943, Consolidated merged with Vultee Aircraft. The result was named Convair. The Convair B-36 Peacemaker is the largest piston-engine plane ever built. It first flew August 8, 1946! 384 built; 4 left.

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2022-08-19

- Lockheed L-133 Starjet; designed by Kelly Johnson 1939-1942; 612 mph; 310-mile range; retractable landing gear, blended wing/body, canards, 4 x 20mm cannon, 2 x L-1000 turbojet engines, etc. The passed, thinking it too futuristic. 1/

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2022-08-19

My stupid avgeek brain immediately went to “but wait how would that apply to other configurations, this is just a shabby analogy,”

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2022-07-28

- Comments on the beautiful (?) Curtiss Model 53 Condor passenger liner biplane? 6 built; 1929; used by Eastern Airlines at Atlanta and TAT. 2 x 635 hp=1270 hp.

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2022-07-27

Past month has been exciting for avgeeks, we've had:

F-35 Aggressor in J-20 camo

Super Hornet Aggressor in J-11 paint scheme

Gorgeous Rafale 2022 NTM bird (unfortunately it had a mid-air collision and lost bits of its tail)

Belgian F-16 Solo Display new paint job reveal

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2022-06-11

Photo of the Day: The Eurovision Typhoons of 80085Sqn, flown by Flt Lt Leo Nardo, Sqn Ldr Donna Tellar & Flt Lt Mike Elle-Angelo taking part in the flypast over

Photographed from a Canberra

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2022-06-03

1/ The stunning 89' long North American XF-108 / F-108 Rapier supersonic interceptor was to intercept Soviet nuclear bombers. One wooden prototype built. 60+ years later, it looks modern and evokes the F-22.

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2022-05-31

- The Dassault MD-750 was a 1960s Mach 3+ project that I don't believe ever reached the prototype phase. Thanks for telling me about it.

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2022-05-22

- Clint Eastwood's was a great flick about a thought-controlled MiG-31. Clockwise from top left: the MiG-31 Firefox, Hermeus Halcyon, XF-108 Rapier concept and Firefox again.

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2022-05-22