Aviation History - July 2016
july 2016 AH 19 LETTER FROM AVIATION HISTORY LOCKHEED MARTIN area 51 ufo The second “Have Blue” technology demonstrator aircraft ...
20 AH july 2016 OPERATING AT NIGHT AND VIRTUALLY INVISIBLE TO RADAR, THE F-117 NIGHTHAWK RACKED UP A NEAR-PERFECT COMBAT RECORD ...
july 2016 AH 21 NIGHTHAWK IN ITS ELEMENT Using a night vision image intensifier, a photographer captured this ghostly view of cr ...
22 AH july 2016 AFTER CROSSING THE SERBIAN BORDER AT 18,000 FEET, U.S. AIR FORCE LIEUTENANT COLONEL WILLIAM “BRAD” O’CONNOR’S F- ...
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24 AHAH july 2016 SPECIFICATIONS ENGINE 2 General Electric F404-GE-F1D2 low bypass turbofan engines, at 10,800 pounds thrust eac ...
july 2016 AH 25 ADVANCED CREW ESCAPE SYSTEM (ACES) II EJECTION SEAT AERIAL REFUELING PORT PILOT’S HEAD-UP DISPLAY FORWARD- LOOKI ...
26 AH july 2016 HUD (head-up display) Dual FCS (flight control systems) light Left multifunction display Data entry panel Right ...
july 2016 AH 27 OPPOSITE: LOCKHEED MARTIN; RIGHT: COURTESY OF LT. COL. WILLIAM B. O’CONNOR (USAF, RET.) thus rendering it “invis ...
COLONEL NEEL KEARBY WAS AMONG THE TOP SCORERS IN THE PACIFIC WHEN HE PUSHED HIS LUCK TOO FAR WHILE CHASING EDDIE RICKENBACKER’S ...
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P-47 PROPONENT Kearby with his P-47D-2 Thunderbolt, the first Fiery Ginger. Opposite: A crane unloads a newly arrived P-47D in N ...
july 2016 AH 31 ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF JOHN STANAWAY UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED; RIGHT: NATIONAL ARCHIVES He became a U.S. Army Air ...
32 AH july 2016 P-38 Lightning devotees, who heatedly chal- lenged him to a mock combat. Kearby accepted the challenge, and on A ...
july 2016 AH 33 OPPOSITE TOP RIGHT & BOTTOM: NATIONAL ARCHIVES pressed every opportunity to place his P-47s in the center of ...
34 AH july 2016 Bomb Wing on February 26. This new assign- UMV\I\TMI[\OI^MPQUUWZMWXXWZ\]VQ\QM[\WÆa missions with his be ...
july 2016 AH 35 OPPOSITE TOP: MYRON DAVIS/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES; OPPOSITE BOTTOM: NATIONAL ARCHIVES; RIGHT: N ...
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july 2016 AH 37 HEINKEL PRODUCED ONE OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE NIGHT FIGHTERS OF WORLD WAR II, BUT NAZI BUREAUCRATS REPEATEDLY SHOT ...
38 AH july 2016 PREVIOUS PAGES: ©MARK POSTLETHWAITE; ABOVE: NATIONAL ARCHIVES; OPPOSITE: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM (TOP) C 3371, (BOTT ...
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