Ferry Flight Tail Thrust 
Aerotime
MAY 6, 2025
Operated by the Dallas-Fort Worth Wing of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) and based in Lancaster in the US state of Texas, the aircraft arrived at the Imperial War Museum (IWM) airfield at Duxford near Cambridge, UK, on Monday, April 28 April 2025, after its approximately 4,800-mile (7,680km) ferry flight from Texas.
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).
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Plane and Pilot
DECEMBER 18, 2024
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. The tail gunner manned twin.50s, The R-1820 was one of the most widely used engines of the era.
Vintage Aviation News
SEPTEMBER 29, 2024
On July 25, 1944, Darbois took this Bf 109G-6 (Werknummer 160756 ‘Yellow 4’ of Jagdgeschwader 4) on a formation ferry flight over northern Italy. This version of the famed Wildcat fighter was in fact identical to the Grumman-built F4F-4 but with four.50
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