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The XF-90 was built like no fighter before… or since. At a time when no one knew what supersonic flight would do to metal, Skunk Works chose brute force over guesswork. They forged the strongest airframe on Earth: 75S aluminum over a steel spine, the fuselage braced until it was
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Meet the Hawker Sea Fury, the Royal Navy’s last and fastest piston fighter, a “super prop” born at the edge of the jet age. In this episode we dive into its Sopwith/Hawker roots, the Bristol Centaurus sleeve-valve engine, combat over Korea and the Bay of the Pigs, and
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September 19th, 1942. Oberleutnant Wilhelm Johnen pushes his Messerschmitt Bf 109G to its absolute limit, engine screaming at maximum power, trying desperately to catch the British bomber ahead. But the wooden aircraft just pulls away, effortlessly maintaining a speed that shouldn't be possible. This is the moment German
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Hoarder Sam meticulously designs and 3D-prints a miniature FPV drone frame, modifying a BetaFPV Air65. This build requires precise adjustments, including hand-drilling for optimal component fit. Witness the assembly process, from initial CAD design to test flights with various batteries. Source: YouTube
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When the Lockheed S-3 Viking first fired up its engines on carrier decks in the mid-1970s, something seemed very wrong. Instead of the thunderous roar expected from a military jet, this submarine hunter produced a sound more familiar from suburban living rooms - the distinctive whine of a vacuum cleaner.
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November 10, 1943, Rechlin test facility. Hauptmann Hans-Werner Lerche climbed into the cockpit of a captured P-47 Thunderbolt nicknamed "Beetle." Intelligence briefings had told him American fighters were crude, mass-produced machines built by a nation better at making refrigerators than aircraft. After ninety minutes of flying, Lerche would
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Flak bloomed around him. Tracers lanced past like electric needles. Captain Robin Olds didn’t flinch; he was already lining up his next target. Scat II, his silver P-38 Lightning, screamed across the sky, twin engines snarling as it tore through Messerschmitts. Then, he saw movement below. A lone Mustang,
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June 27, 1950. Seoul has fallen. At Suwon Airfield, American civilians are trapped as North Korean fighters strafe the runway, destroying transports one by one. Enemy armor is twenty miles away and closing. North Korean radar picks up five unidentified contacts approaching from the sea. The flight leader squints through
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British Flight Sergeant James “Ginger” Lacey stared in horror from his Hawker Hurricane. A German Heinkel He 111 had just bombed Buckingham Palace—smoke still coiling into the sky. Ginger’s rage surged, and his Hurricane matched his intensity with a deafening roar from its 1,030-horsepower Rolls-Royce Merlin engine.
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The Northrop P-61 Black Widow is a twin-engine United States Army Air Forces fighter aircraft of World War II. It was the first operational U.S. warplane designed specifically as a night fighter. Named for the North American spider Latrodectus mactans, it was an all-metal, twin-engine, twin-boom design armed with
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The Thunderscreech was an experimental American turboprop plane created to as an experimental variant of the the F-84 Thunderstreak fighter jet. Development began after the Navy issued a requirement seeking a carrier fighter that could take off without a catapult – a problem still facing jet powered aircraft at the time.
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Republic began with the F-84 as a straight-wing monoplane on tricycle undercarriage with a jet engine in response to a General Operational Requirement in the final year of WW2. While a straight-wing model was eventually produced for frontline service in the Korean War, it was outclassed by the MiG-15'