Aviation History - July 2018
july 2018 AH 39 PREVIOUS SPREAD: LOCKHEED MARTIN; ABOVE: GETTY IMAGES; ABOVE RIGHT: U.S. NAVY ton were both based on airframes i ...
WINGSPAN 103 feet 10 inches WING AREA 1,000 square feet LENGTH 91 feet 8 inches HEIGHT 29 feet 4 inches WEIGHT 49,548 lbs. (empt ...
july 2018 AH 41 ILLUSTRATION BY STEVE KARP MARTIN DORSAL TURRET WITH TWO .50-CALIBER MACHINE GUNS WING OUTBOARD FUEL TANKS FIBER ...
42 AH JULY 2018 “Starve before doing business with the damned Navy,” Johnson said. “They don’t know what the hell they want and ...
JULY 2018 AH 43 OPPOSITE: (TOP) NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM, (BOTTOM) COURTESY OF RICHARD BOSLOW; RIGHT: U.S. NAVY (In 1962 th ...
44 AH JULY 2018 etrated Soviet defenses and survived, return to ditch alongside the ships, since they had no tail- hooks. The on ...
JULY 2018 AH 45 OPPOSITE PHOTOS: U.S. NAVY; ABOVE: ALAMY THE NEPTUNE’S SWAN SONG WAS AS A FIREBOMBER, STARTING IN THE LATE 1960S ...
46 AH july 2018 DURING THE EARLY STAGES OF WORLD WAR II, THE CIVIL AIR PATROL PLAYED A VITAL ROLE IN HELPING DEFEND AMERICAN MER ...
FLYING MINUTE MEN On July 11, 1942, Civil Air Patrol crewmen Wynant Farr and John Haggins drop a depth charge from their Grumman ...
48 AH JULY 2018 The 2017 hurricane season was particularly difficult, with Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria battering the south ...
july 2018 AH 49 PREVIOUS SPREAD: ©KEITH FERRIS; OPPOSITE IMAGES: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; TOP RIGHT: CAP NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS; BOTT ...
50 AH JULY 2018 away just before land-based bombers reached the target. Shortly after that, CAP planes started car- rying bombs ...
JULY 2018 AH 51 OPPOSITE TOP & RIGHT: CAP NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS; OPPOSITE BOTTOM: AP PHOTO/GEORGE R. SKADDING; ABOVE RIGHT: ...
52 AH JULY 2018 from the Office of Civilian Defense to the War Department, and CAP became an auxiliary of the Army Air Forces. T ...
JULY 2018 AH 53 OPPOSITE: (TOP) COURTESY OF DAVID T. ZABECKI, (BOTTOM) JACK FLETCHER/ NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC/GETTY IMAGES; ABOVE &a ...
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JULY 2018 AH 55 METEORIC EJECTION A Gloster Meteor T.7 test-fires a Martin-Baker ejection seat. One of two Meteors employed by t ...
Little more than a month after Pearl Harbor, when the United States was belatedly gearing up for war, Germany was already testin ...
JULY 2018 AH 57 “the ejection seat was developed quite quickly, and we were able to soon come up with the velocities and acceler ...
5858 AH JULY 2018JULY 2018 into the Pacific. “In the history of Naval Aviation, only a handful of pilots had ever attempted, muc ...
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