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XF8B: Meet Boeing’s Late WWII Experimental Naval Fighter
The XF8B was envisioned to provide the U.S. Navy with a long-range carrier-borne fighter that could take the fight to the ...
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How the XB-1 aircraft went supersonic without a sonic boom
When the experimental XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic speeds on a test flight, it did not create a disruptive sonic boom – ...
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The Art of North American's WWII Aircraft Engineering Drawings
But because this collection contains so many experimental and pre-production ... Canada’s largest aircraft manufacturer during World War II. The team designed a system of a lattice framework ...
The Flying Potato & 10 More Of The Oddest Food-Related Military Aircraft Nicknames
Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...
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World’s only flying B-29s returning for EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025
The world’s only two flying examples of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress will be back this summer at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025 ...