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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 N69900.To Cook Cleland, …

article Goodyear XF2G-1 Super CorsairIn 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 the …

article Boeing B–29 SuperfortressA 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, which was …

article XF6F-1 Hellcat: The Prototype That Created America’s Ultimate Carrier FighterOn 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 into …

article  Akutan Zero (Koga’s Zero): The Captured Mitsubishi A6M2 That Changed the Air War in the PacificOn 4 June 1942, while the Battle of Midway was unfolding hundreds of kilometers to the south, another operation …

article Wrecked Japanese Zero Mitsubishi A6M Fighter – History, Pacific War Wrecks & Scale Modeling InspirationThe Rise of the Mitsubishi A6M ZeroThe Mitsubishi A6M Zero became one of the most recognizable fighter aircraft of the …

F-4E super Phantom II SRA 68-424In 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 were …

F-4E Phantom II AUP Aegean GhostThe 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 upgraded …