28 May 2016
CHECK SIX: The F-4 Phantom's F3H Demon Roots
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With yesterday being the 58th anniversary of the F-4 Phantom II's maiden flight, here's some interesting trivia. There is actually ...
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21 May 2016
CHECK SIX: KLM Becomes the First European Airline Postwar to Serve America
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21 MAY 1946: Seventy years ago today, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines was the first European airline postwar to launch scheduled services to the U...
18 May 2016
CHECK SIX: The Douglas DC-7
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18 MAY 1953: FIRST FLIGHT OF THE DOUGLAS DC-7 Douglas launched the DC-7 program at the prodding of C.R. Smith of American Airlines who ...
14 May 2016
CHECK SIX: The Rollout of the Boeing 367-80
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14 May 1954: The rollout at Boeing's Renton Field facility of the aircraft that would change jet transport, the Boeing 367-80. Bill...
10 May 2016
CHECK SIX: The Vought V-173 "Flying Pancake"
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In the 1930s while at Vought, aeronautical engineer Charles Zimmerman advocated a unique discoid aircraft layout that was a form of a...
09 May 2016
CHECK SIX: The Area Ruling of the Cessna Citation X
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If you look closely at the aft fuselage by the engine nacelles of the Cessna Citation X, it’s pinched in quite considerably to confor...
04 May 2016
A Giant Ahead of Its Time: The Lockheed R6V Constitution
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Before the start of the Second World War, Pan American Airways was the world's biggest operator of large ocean-going flying boats wit...
29 April 2016
The American V-1 Program 1944-1950
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Beginning in 1942, Allied intelligence began a systematic analysis of the Fiesler Fi 103 flying bomb better known as the V-1. Analysis of c...
25 April 2016
CHECK SIX: The USS Wasp (CV-7)
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The USS Wasp in 1940 (Wikipedia) The Wasp (CV-7) was a scaled down Yorktown-class carrier and a product of the Washington Naval Treaty...
24 April 2016
The Grand Daddy of the Bell Helicopter Family: The 1942 Model 30
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I had posted an article this past November on how a self-taught engineer, Arthur Young, got Bell Aircraft into the helicopter business . Yo...
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