Front Row: [L to R]
• F/O Otis S. Lee - Pilot
• F/O Carlton O. Alderson - Co-Pilot
• 2nd Lt. Rudy Menchl - Navigator
• [?] James Markowitz - Bombardier
• 2nd Lt. Thomas H. Carver - Bombardier *
[* Replacement - Not Pictured]
Back Row: [L to R]
• S/Sgt. Harry L. Cunningham - Waist Gunner
•...
1/48 General Dynamics F-111A - The Jet Age.
Username: Donivanp
First name: Don
Category: Intermediate
Scale: 1/48
Manufacturer: Hobby Boss
Model Type:HS Un officially until the day it was retired, Aardvark
Aftermarket addons: none
Been busy and not had much time to post but worked...
USN sub crew member films startling rescue of an entire B-29 crew fatally damaged over Japan in 1945. All 12 crew men bailed out and were picked up by the sub. Extraordinary that none were lost.
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The Germans had rings of anti-aircraft surrounding their cities and more Allied aircraft were shot down by flak than by fighters. So, while this is not really an aircraft, I think it might be interesting to the folks on the board. l got started in the winter, left for awhile, then completed...
Audio clip of a Lancaster crew on a bombing mission when they encounter an enemy fighter.
http://theaviationist.com/2013/06/04/radio-chatter-clip-of-wwii-lancaster-bomber-engaged-by-german-plane-during-a-attack-mission/
Just saw this on the news...
During Spaceship 2's final test flight over the Mojave desert, there was a catastrophic failure.
According to the early reports, of the two crew members, there is one fatality and one seriously injured.
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Crashes: 1 Dead, 1...
In May 1937 George Volkert, then chief designer at Handley Page, wrote a memorandum about the design of future bomber aircraft and the influence that bombing policy would have on design.
In the introduction, he states:
He continues:
From this we can see that the high speed unarmed bomber...