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Kingman Arizona. There was a local restaurant, maybe still there, that had photos of the actors and crew doing the filming. The local history talks of some of the town folk working as extras for the movie. The way they tell it, the director walked about and selected six different airplanes for...

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Designed by the Chief of the Air Force Technical Bureau, Major General Chu Chia-Jen, in 1941, the X-PO was a single-seat fighter monoplane, the single prototype of which was produced by AFAMF in 1943. Based largely on the Curtiss Hawk 75, it was of mixed construction with wooden three-spar...

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Nice pictures, the J-21 never really gets credit for its use. I saw some of the descriptions of their actions against "intruding" German aircraft during the war, it was a surprise to the BF-109s.

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It is a maintenance test set for the F/TF-102 series. used to control the launcher rails, their cycling up/down, while the aircraft is on the ground. Usually the MG-3/10 Fire Control System cycled the doors and weapons. However, safety switches in the right main gear blocked this action. This...

Here is some information on the A-26 B/C flat top canopy. Source is A-26 Invader Units of World War 2. quote 1 Incorporating these changes in the production line without pause, along with other issues, caused the slow production rate. This initially resulted in more A-26Bs reaching the...

This is a radar bombing control panel from a B-52B - 52C bomber. It was part of the Bomb/Nav system C-1938 (weapons systems control number) and transferred the Bomb-Nav Radar from preset pulse setting (5 were set on the ground by maintenance) to a fixed high pulse rate for target definition...

These three resources - Aircraft Downed During the Cold War and Thereafter - Aircraft Downed During the Cold War and Thereafter Zhang, Xiaoming (2004). Red Wings Over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea (2004 ed.). Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 1-58544-340-9...

4 September 1950 - A US Navy F4U-4B Corsair of VF-53, piloted by Ensign Edward V. Laney, shot down a Soviet Naval Aviation Douglas A-20 Box over the Yellow Sea, southeast of the Soviet-occupied Port Arthur Naval Base in China and west of the North Korean coast. Laney was one of a four-ship...

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