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How a WWII bomber returned from combat with no crew onboard
In November 1944, a U.S. B-17 bomber returned from a mission with no crew aboard. The aircraft flew for miles and made a ...
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80 knots takeoff and 470 knots flutter: The chief pilot who flew the unpowered bomber
W.E.W. Petter hired World War II veteran Wing Commander R.P. Beamont as chief test pilot to ensure the Canberra met ...
Abe Peck lives in Santa Barbara but is a professor emeritus in service at the Medill School of Journalism/Northwestern ...
It is one of the most daring stunts ever captured on film: a pilot threading a Beechcraft through an open-ended airport ...
The U.S. president can order a nuclear launch without consulting anyone, including Congress, and U.S. nuclear weapons have ...
The longest airstrips in the American Armed Forces.
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