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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the North American AJ Savage

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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).

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Power is turned into thrust by three-bladed Hamilton Standard constant speed, full-feathering propellers. For ferry flights, two 410-gallon tanks could be installed in the bomb bay, giving the bomber a 3,400-mile range. By the time the B-17 was in serial production, power had increased substantially from the Model 299 prototype.

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