Vintage Aviation News
JULY 3, 2025
Navy North American AJ-1 Savage (BuNo 122590) in flight over southern California (USA). This was the first production aircraft, and it already crashed and burned near Bedford, Virginia (USA) on 22 June 1950 on a ferry flight from Edwards Air Force Base, California to Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland (USA).
Vintage Aviation News
JUNE 7, 2025
Root was tasked with ferrying a P-51B-5-NA Mustang, serial number 43-6529, from Niagara Falls, New York to Newark, New Jersey, where it would be shipped to the European theater. After a brief reunion, Lt. Root resumed his mission. At approximately 1500 Eastern War Time, he took off from Rochester Airport.
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Vintage Aviation News
JUNE 26, 2025
1 P1344 was one of 32 Hampdens on a ferry flight from Sumburgh in the Shetland Islands to northern Russia in 1942, destined to protect Arctic convoys. Since then, the superb Vickers Wellington Mk.X MF628 has been moved to the main display hangars and fully assembled as of April 2023. The Handley Page Hampden TB.1
Aerotime
JUNE 21, 2024
The provision of stabilizer floats at the ends of each wing, which could be retracted for streamlined flight, added to the design’s efficiency. The design, originally known as the Consolidated Model 28, featured a hull-shaped lower fuselage, with its twin piston engines mounted on the leading edge of the high wing above.
Aerotime
JANUARY 15, 2025
It flew 70 of the 87 ferry missions, including 46 of the 54 post-mission ferry flights from Dryden to the Kennedy Space Center. NASA This SCA was the first and only shuttle carrier used by the space shuttle program until 1990. But in 1989, the SCA got a sister.
Vintage Aviation News
DECEMBER 5, 2024
The two stabilizing floats on the wingtips, consisting of duralumin bottoms and inflatable fabric tops reinforced with rubber, could partially retract into the wings to reduce drag, and the centrally mounted float was designed to be jettisoned should a pilot feel he needed to evade a pursuing fighter.
Plane and Pilot
DECEMBER 18, 2024
For ferry flights, two 410-gallon tanks could be installed in the bomb bay, giving the bomber a 3,400-mile range. The secret weapon of a bombardiers tool kit was the Norden bombsighta gyro-stabilized, mechanical, analog computer with downward-aimed optics. Turning base, the flaps will be lowered to the two-thirds position.
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