MiTasol
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Even if the stories are correct the whole thing about the sound barrier was breaking it in level flight, not a dive wasnt it?
For me it's about the fact that none of the theories are correct or plausible: discussion beyond that is moot.
Thumpalumpacus
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I'm pretty sure that was actually the USAF designation for a Denver Omelet C model, block 25.
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Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
With or without ketchup?
MiTasol
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Hi Sabrejet
Can you post a larger version of your avatar and give its history?
Can you post a larger version of your avatar and give its history?
Thumpalumpacus
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That's the D model. It can also carry mustard, on hard-points.
MiTasol
- It's the #1 YF-93 (F-86C), pictured at Edwards AFB (Muroc) North Base, last week of January 1950. The aircraft was designed to fulfil an AAF/USAF requirement for a "Penetration Fighter" (along with the McDonnell XF-88 and Lockheed XF-90), a concept which did not progress. The #1 YF-93 was unarmed but the #2 aircraft had full internal cannon armament and conducted weapons tests from mid-1950 on. Both machines ended their days with the NACA.I've been assisting Bill Simone with a book on the type, which has just been published by Air Force Legends/Steve Ginter.
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MiTasol
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Another obit for a woman who was not an aviator but sure helped them.
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“This feat,” MIT said in 2021, “made long-term weather prediction possible for the first time.”
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Ben Ferencz, last living Nuremberg prosecutor of Nazi war crimes, dead at 103 | CBC News
Ben Ferencz, the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, has died in Florida after recently turning 103. Ferencz prosecuted Nazis for genocidal war crimes and was among the first outside witnesses to document the atrocities of Nazi labour and concentration camps.
Another obit for a woman who was not an aviator but sure helped them.
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“This feat,” MIT said in 2021, “made long-term weather prediction possible for the first time.”
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MiTasol
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Another not aviator but there is definitely a link to aviation
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As late as 2019, in his 80s, Breedlove was still working to design a car that would break 1,000 mph.
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Another not aviator but there is definitely a link to aviation
Craig Breedlove - Honorary Unsubscribe
As late as 2019, in his 80s, Breedlove was still working to design a car that would break 1,000 mph.
Not only a link to aviation, but also a bold sonofabitch.
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He was a racing legend. I did this around 1983 for the cars owner.
I got to do this "Replica" of Breedlove's AMX. It is actually one of the cars
he set endurance records with, it's just This one was actually the #2 car.
I did both Inside and Out painting, trunk and under the hood.
I also hand lettered numbers and door names. as the original was done.
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HONOLULU — Ken Potts, one of the last two remaining survivors of the USS Arizona battleship, which sank during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 102.
Howard Kenton Potts died Friday at the home in Provo, Utah, that he shared with his wife of 66 years, according to Randy Stratton, whose late father, Donald Stratton, was Potts' Arizona shipmate and close friend.
Stratton said Potts "had all his marbles" but lately was having a hard time getting out of bed. When Stratton spoke to Potts on his birthday, April 15, he was happy to have made it to 102.
"But he knew that his body was kind of shutting down on him, and he was just hoping that he could get better but (it) turned out not," Stratton said.
Potts was born and raised in Honey Bend, Illinois, and enlisted in the Navy in 1939.
He was working as a crane operator shuttling supplies to the Arizona the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, when the Pearl Harbor attack happened, according to a 2021 article by the Utah National Guard.
In a 2020 oral history interview with the American Veterans Center, Potts said a loudspeaker ordered sailors back to their ships so he got on a boat.
"When I got back to Pearl Harbor, the whole harbor was afire," He said in the interview. "The oil had leaked out and caught on fire and was burning."
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Howard Kenton Potts died Friday at the home in Provo, Utah, that he shared with his wife of 66 years, according to Randy Stratton, whose late father, Donald Stratton, was Potts' Arizona shipmate and close friend.
Stratton said Potts "had all his marbles" but lately was having a hard time getting out of bed. When Stratton spoke to Potts on his birthday, April 15, he was happy to have made it to 102.
"But he knew that his body was kind of shutting down on him, and he was just hoping that he could get better but (it) turned out not," Stratton said.
Potts was born and raised in Honey Bend, Illinois, and enlisted in the Navy in 1939.
He was working as a crane operator shuttling supplies to the Arizona the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, when the Pearl Harbor attack happened, according to a 2021 article by the Utah National Guard.
In a 2020 oral history interview with the American Veterans Center, Potts said a loudspeaker ordered sailors back to their ships so he got on a boat.
"When I got back to Pearl Harbor, the whole harbor was afire," He said in the interview. "The oil had leaked out and caught on fire and was burning."
Ken Potts, one of last USS Arizona survivors, dies at 102
One of the last two remaining survivors of the USS Arizona battleship, which sank during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died.
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