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Why didn't the USAAF ask for Merlin powered P-38s when the Merlin upgrade worked so well on the P-51s? Why did the P-38 soldier on without paddle props and limited to 60 inches of manifold pressure throughout the war when both the 47 and 51
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Supermarine Spitfire Mk.18, powered by a Rolls Royce Griffon engine. Flown by Rob Davies at the Hangar 10 Fly In 2019. The Rolls-Royce Griffon engine was designed in answer to Royal Naval specifications for an engine capable of generating good power at low altitudes. Concepts for adapting the
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Of the three outstanding U.S. Army Air Corps fighters of World War II (the others being the P-47 Thunderbolt and the P-51 Mustang), the Lockheed P-38 was the first to fly by almost two and a half years. Built by the Lockheed Aircraft Company, it was
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The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was the first truly modern fighter. With its all-metal stressed-skin construction, mono-wing design, enclosed cockpit, and retractable landing gear, it had no equal. It was the fastest military plane in the sky for six years — until another German plane, the Focke-Wulf Fw
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The British Martin-Baker MB 5 was the ultimate development of a series of prototype fighter aircraft built during the Second World War. Neither the MB 5 nor its predecessors ever entered production, despite what test pilots described as excellent performance. Martin-Baker Aircraft began the MB 5 as the
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With Burning Man being cancelled for the second year in a row over COVID-19 concerns, some Burners who do not have COVID-19 concerns organized their own “renegade” Burning Man on the Black Rock Desert Playa, near Gerlach, Nevada, over the last week. Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen described
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This footage comes from one of the final scenes in the captivating 1945 Academy Award nominated film The Last Bomb. The complete 35-minute remastered film is available on this channel here. The Last Bomb is a 1945 propaganda film mainly concerning the conventional phase of the bombing of Japan
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Alligator in Florida snatches drone mid-air, smokes billows from his mouth after. The footage, reportedly filmed in Florida, shows shows the moment the alligator snapped its jaws shut around the small drone. However, the device likely combusted moments afterwards, as the video shows smoke billowing out of the animal&
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The USSR Ekranoplan, or better known as the Caspin Sea Monster, was a giant ground effect aircraft that could hover above the seas. It was as big, used freighting new physics seemingly beyond then-current technology, And terrified the west. The United States, in a cold war fury, didn’t
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The Spitfire is an icon, but it was recognised that improvements could be made to iron out it's flaws. This development ultimately led to the Spiteful and Seafang - two of the fastest piston engine aircraft to ever fly. The Supermarine Spiteful was a British Rolls-Royce Griffon-engined
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The Bristol Type 167 Brabazon was a large British piston-engined propeller-driven airliner designed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company to fly transatlantic routes between the UK and the United States. The type was named Brabazon after the Brabazon Committee and its chairman, Lord Brabazon of Tara, who had developed
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During the warm up sessions for the third rugby test match between the South African Springboks and British and Irish Lions in Cape Town, one of the Lions players downed a TV drone with a spectacular spot kick. The British and Irish Lions succumbed to a second consecutive defeat as