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Monday, 21 March 2022
The Yankee Clipper in 1939.
The Pan American World Airways Boeing 314 Yankee Clipper (serial NC18603), circa 1939. This aircraft started the Transatlantic mail service. It crashed in Lisbon, Portugal, on 22 February 1943 and was written off.
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Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, often nicknamed the “Warthog,” is known for its close air support capabilities. The primary weapon visible is the GAU-8/A Avenger 30mm rotary cannon, a massive gun designed to destroy armoured vehicles. Unlike many aircraft, the A-10 does not eject its spent ammunition casings but instead retains them in the nose to serve as ballast.
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JASDF (Tactical Fighter Training Group, hikoukyoudougu) is the aggressor unit of the Air Tactics Development Wing of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force based at Komatsu Air Base in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.
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.
B-17 Flying Fortress serial number (42-97503) nicknamed "Princess Pat" a part of the 381st Bomb Group. Eventually crash landed in 1945 and burned out was salvaged and scraped.
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