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House of The B-23 Dragon

Vintage Aviation News

An aircraft hangar can hold many secrets. Tucked alongside the wall of the “big” hangar at the National Warplane Museum (NWM), in Geneseo, New York is one such example of a tale that deserves to be written and subsequently read. They wanted it to have double the payload of their current bomber, the Martin B-10.

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Surprise in the Skies: TF-104 Starfighter Joins Aviation PhotoCrew Mission at Sun ‘N Fun

Vintage Aviation News

headquartered at Kennedy Space Center operates the only commercial fleet of aircraft capable of flying at sustained MACH 2 and launching payloads at altitude. Starfighters Space Inc.

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Building The Last B-36 ‘Peacemaker’…in a Garage

Vintage Aviation News

In one of the display hangars, they came upon the Aluminum Overcast. The Peacemaker was the only American aircraft with the range and payload to carry atomic bombs from American soil to the USSR. In 1983, at the age of 5, he and his father took a trip to the National Museum of the United States Air Force, in Dayton, Ohio.

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Voices from Combat: The Consolidated PB2Y Coronado Becomes a Bomber

Vintage Aviation News

The Coronados wrecked the airfield and destroyed hangars, aircraft, barracks, mess halls, fuel dumps, and communication equipment, as well as the motor torpedo boats Guroaitei No. 5 and Guroaitei No. The wingtip floats of the Coronado retracted to form the wingtips of the aircraft, as this evocative head-on shot shows.

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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Breguet Deux-Ponts

Vintage Aviation News

Breguet 761 Deux-Ponts F-WASM, the first prototype, rolled out of one of the hangars at Villacoublay, having been modified to the third tail of a Br 761S. (US There, the dimensions of the two vertical stabilizers were increased, and a third stabilizer with no rudder was added to the tail to counteract yaw instability.

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Seaplane Speed Demons, Inside Planes of Fame’s Schneider Trophy Tribute

Vintage Aviation News

With so much of the earth’s surface consisting of water and concerned with the lack of dedicated flying fields for land-based airplanes, Schneider believed that seaplanes would become more reliable, have longer ranges, and carry greater payloads than their land-based cousins in the air.

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Incorporating Relaxation and Luxury Into AirVenture Camping

Flying Magazine

If he desired a cold drink from the refrigerator two hangars away, he might casually bring up the topic of icy beverages and then let the mental image steep in everyone’s heads. Sure, it’s bulky and weighs more, but for a great night’s sleep that tops many hotel beds, it’s 20 pounds of payload well spent.