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Sunday, 20 May 2007 |
Article submitted by DEY_THOR_USA...
 This is America's first Jet airplane - the P-59 first flown in Oct. 1942. Volunteers have spent the last 10 years restoring this airplane, and they put the wings back on last weekend just in time to be on static display at an air show this
weekend.
In 1942, this was a Top Secret project located at to be Edwards AFB.
When the dry lake flooded, they had to transport it by road so it was disguised
with a dummy wooden propeller on the front and covered with a shroud.
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 03 May 2007 |
Hi gang, the last month has been a bit quieter than usual...well, especially for me anyway seeing as my trackir has bitten the dirt. Hopefully I'll have it replaced in the not too distant future and I look forward to getting back in the air.
On the bright side, Thor has been made a return to active duty and by all acounts is cutting up the air in his FW-190 with all the enthusiam and skill he can muster!
Just a reminder to some of you to get your profiles updated with a blurb and a piccy if you haven't already done so.
And it wouldn't be a news update without a nice piccy, this one by Thor...
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Thursday, 19 April 2007 |
This article submitted by DEY_THOR_USA...
JAPAN’S SUBMERSIBLE I-400 AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
 In many ways HIJMS I-400 was decades ahead of her time. She was the world’s largest submarine with a length of 400-ft and a surface displacement of 3,530 tons. Above her main deck rose a 115-ft. long, 12-ft diameter, hangar housing three torpedo-bombers. These float planes were rolled out through a massive hydraulic door onto an 85-ft pneumatic catapult, where they were rigged for flight, fueled, armed, launched, and after landing alongside,lifted back aboard with a powerful hydraulic crane.
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