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Tuesday, 14 December 2021
On this day in 1940, eight Swordfish aircraft from Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy 830 Naval Air Squadron bombed Tripoli from their base in Malta.
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Northrop YB-49, (P1), an experimental flying wing jet bomber developed for the United States Air Force in the late 1940s.It was powered by eight Allison TG-180 turbojet engines, providing a maximum speed of 493 mph. The prototype was a jet-powered development of the earlier propeller-driven Northrop YB-35, (P2). only two prototypes were built, and the program was canceled in 1949, with the remaining aircraft ordered to be dismantled.
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On this day in 1978 the Royal Navy ceased steam catapult launches from Aircraft Carriers, when the last ever Plane, an F4K Phantom was launched from HMS ARK ROYAL. A few hours earlier the last Buccaneer was launched too. Buccaneer and Phantom.
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