Air & Space Smithsonian – September 2019
Despite many mishaps over its eight decades of service, Gary Filizetti’s Grumman Goose is the oldest one still fl ying, says pil ...
ELEGANCE WITH WINGS – 1937 STINSON SR-9F RELIANT Richard A. Rezabek’s 1937 Reliant, NC 18425, is so carefully restored that it h ...
Dave Bole says his 1943 Howard DGA-15P“isn’ta showwinner,” becausehefliesit often.PerhapsReno attendeeswillprove himwrongand cro ...
Built to drop bombs, an A-26C/B-26C Invader owned by Steve Penning and Phil Gattuso has spent most of its operational life fi gh ...
The CH-47 is the U.S. Army’s only heavy-lifter. The newest model, the F, can carry up to 25,000 pounds of people, supplies, or e ...
THE MANY MISSIONS AND SOMETIMES STARTLING CARGO OF THE CH-47 CHINOOK. BY ED DARACK MOVE IT! US ARMY/SGT THOMAS MORT, 12TH CAB Se ...
A formation of CH-47s airlifts 105mm howitzers for a 1984 live-fi re exercise conducted on Nightmare Range, a training ground in ...
A Chinookdelivers a watertanktoa mountaintopcamp inVietnam. with the crew keeping us just within sight of the tops of trees. So ...
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anything and everything to anyone who needed it. We called it “beer, bullets, and beans.” With that done, with fuel burned down, ...
Lifting heavy loads in El Salvador’s hot climate is no problem for the CH-47. A U.S. Army Chinook readies to ferry Salvadoran tr ...
“We haul it all” could be a Chinook unit’s motto. This 159th Aviation Regiment helicopter transports a rigid-hull infl atable fu ...
Seen through night-vision goggles in 2011, an MH-47 on a special operations mission kicked up dust and rocks as it landed in the ...
two Chinooks. It took us about 50 minutes to get to the special operations personnel at their compound. We loaded a total of 59 ...
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INTHEDAVISMOUNTAINSOFFARWESTTEXAS, at theUniversityofTexasMcDonaldObservatory, astronomersspendtheirnightspeeringatthe starsthro ...
There are thousands of local reference frames in use today, but the ITRF is widely accepted inter- nationally. Without global st ...
AttheMcDonald Observatoryin Texas,a newdish wasbuiltforVLBI (verylongbaseline interferometry).By observingquasars inthedistant u ...
Established by France in 1990, the geodetic network known as DORIS has its 50 or so transmitting stations spaced more or less ev ...
known as GRACE, for Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, measure the changing force of gravity at Earth’s surface. The twin ...
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