
84-year-old Marvin Skubick, a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot in World War II, took his final flight on a B-17 last month. According to wikipedia, "of the 1.5 million tonnes of bombs dropped on Germany by U.S. aircraft, 500,000 were dropped from B-17s."
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Here's a controllable panoramic view of the cockpit of Airbus's monster A380 airliner
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You never know when DB Cooper will crop up in conversation around the house - here's a recent article from New York Magazine with some developments.
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Some great pictures from Bernard Zee - they start out good and get really interesting toward the end. Check out the transonic oblique shockwaves as an F-18 flies just below the speed of sound about 20 feet above San Francisco Bay heading towards Berkeley on a bombing run.
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The old Soviet aircraft carrier Kiev is now an attraction at a Chinese theme park. Isn't their space shuttle Buran parked in a playground somewhere? google... no, the static test model is in Gorky Park; the Buran that flew was crushed when its hanger collapsed a few years ago.
Heh - here's what Soviet websites would have looked like if the Commies had made it another ten years to the internet age (link to buran.ru).
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Two great American aviators died recently: David Lee "Tex" Hill and Robin Olds. Here's a half-hour of story-telling from General Hill, and another from General Olds.
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It's strange that the instruments of war should be so beautiful. Here's a video of an airshow this year in Blenheim, New Zealand, that featured seven Fokker Dr I triplanes, a Fokker D VII, a SE5a, a Sopwith Camel, and a Nieuport. You can find details of the planes here.
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