article FG-1A Corsair “94” NX69900 Lucky Gallon” Built as FG-1A by Goodyear. Received Strength/Charge with the United States Navy as BuNo 13481. History12 August 1946To Cook Cleland Air Service/Cook Cleland, Willoughby, OH with new c/r…
article Goodyear XF2G-1 Super Corsair In March 1944, Pratt Whitney requested an F4U-1 Corsair from Vought Aircraft to evaluate their new P&W R-4360,28 engine. Vought shipped an F4U-1, BuNo 02460 (Birdcage Canopy) to see if…
article Boeing B–29 Superfortress A series of historical images of the legendary Boeing B-29 Superfortress during WW2, depicting its life at the Pacific resort. Although it bore the “Superfortress” tag, a nod to another game-changer, the B-17,…
article XF6F-1 Hellcat: The Prototype That Created America’s Ultimate Carrier Fighter On 26 June 1942, at Grumman’s facility in Bethpage, Long Island, chief engineer and test pilot Robert Leicester Hall lifted the prototype XF6F-1 Hellcat…
article Akutan Zero (Koga’s Zero): The Captured Mitsubishi A6M2 That Changed the Air War in the Pacific On 4 June 1942, while the Battle of Midway was unfolding hundreds of kilometers to the south,…
article Wrecked Japanese Zero Mitsubishi A6M Fighter – History, Pacific War Wrecks & Scale Modeling Inspiration The Rise of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero The Mitsubishi A6M Zero became one of the most recognizable fighter aircraft…
F-4E super Phantom II SRA 68-424 In 1990 the USA as part of its reduction in defense spending, the USAF proceeded to reduce its aircraft fleet. Thus, 28 F-4E aircraft of the Indiana National Guard…
F-4E Phantom II AUP Aegean Ghost The Phantom entered service with the HAF in 1974 as part of the “Peace Icarus” weapons program. Although this is a second generation aircraft, 36 Hellenic Phantoms have been…
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