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June 25th, 1946; Jack Northrop's Flying Wing took to the skies for the first time.The B-35 was the brainchild of Jack Northrop, who made the flying wing the focus of his work during the 1930s. During World War II, Northrop...
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June 13th, 1944: At approximately 0430, the first V-1 flying bomb struck London. The “buzz bomb” detonated on a railway bridge crossing over Grove Street, between Devonshire Street and Osborne Road in Bethnal Green. Six persons were killed by the...
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. Frank E. Petersen Jr., suffered continual racial indignities as a military enlistee in the 1950s, which started with a recruiter who forced him to retake a Navy entrance exam after being accused of cheating the first time. After acing...
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On 5 April 1968, Flight Lieutenant Alan Pollock, a flight commander in No. 1 (Fighter) Squadron RAF, was most displeased with a shifting emphasis from manned aircraft towards guided missiles, concurrently, the fact that no aerial displays had been planned...
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Seconds after this image was taken, the unimaginable occurred... Perhaps one of the most visually impressive aircraft to ever take to the skies, the North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie was the prototype version of the proposed B-70 nuclear-armed deep-penetration strategic bomber...
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