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

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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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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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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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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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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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thank you DoD for creating an entire generation retarded with msm PSYOPS via BBBRRRTTT memes, YouTube videos, thedrivedotcom articles, Reddit etc to make them fanboy the A-10 and subjecting us to the wonderful experience of explaining the fanboys why A-10 was always shit

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A Continental Airlines B747-200 seen here in this photo departing Miami in July 1989 ©- Torsten Maiwald

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An Air New Zealand B747-200 seen here in this photo at Melbourne in December 1989 ©- See photo

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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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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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- 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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- 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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