configuration), Antonov An-124, and An-225, or for flights through the Southern Hemisphere, primarily to and from Australia (which has not yet adopted the ETOPS...
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airliner with a pressurized cabin. During this period, He also test flew the XB-17 and determined that it would provide an ideal basis for an airliner, and...
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Boeing XB-15). While it was later found to be unsuitable for combat because the power of existing engines was inadequate for its weight, the XB-15 led...
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June 1966 (section June 19, 1966 (Sunday))
1966. p. 11. "Rips Publicity Use of XB-70 in Air Collision". Chicago Tribune. June 11, 1966. p. 5. "Jet Hits Big XB-70; Kills Famed Pilot". Chicago Tribune...
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proceeded quite slowly at Northrop because of the higher priority of the Northrop XB-35 flying wing strategic bomber project. In fact, much of the work on the...
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until August 1941.[citation needed] On May 10, 1943, the first Consolidated XB-32 Dominator, 41–141, crashed on take-off at Lindbergh Field, likely from...
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height of about 7 cm (2.8 in) came in a c. 12 cm (4.7 in) diameter hemispherical injection-molded thermoplastic casing featuring one central push button...
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accident. 19 May Northrop N-9M-1, one-third scale flying testbed for the Northrop XB-35 flying wing design, crashes approximately 12 mi (19 km) W of Muroc...
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United Kingdom, but remains in the Commonwealth. 1964 – The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's fastest bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale...
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McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 N990XB Boom XB-1 Boom XB-1 N994Z McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 Ozark Air Lines Flight 650 N999B Douglas DC-3...
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Western Hemisphere and the second jet airliner worldwide to fly. August 13 – During a domestic flight in Colombia from Bogotá to Ibagué, a SAETA Douglas C-47...
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North American XB-70 Valkyrie by the United States Air Force The deadliest crash of this year was Viasa Flight 742, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 which crashed...
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Cotur (born 1944), Belgian scientific journalist MPC · 9633 9634 Vodice 1993 XB Antonio Nino Vodice (born 1943) an Italian banking accountant and amateur...
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Sergeant James E. Sands Master Sergeant Adolph Cattarius For flight of Boeing XB-15 from Langley Field to Chile on relief mission after 1939 Chillán earthquake...
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Wing was rendered difficult by the shortage of B-29s. The first prototype XB-29 was turned over to the USAAF shortly after the 58th Bombardment Wing was...
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simultaneously with the RAF's Overstrand biplane bomber design. The Martin XB-10 prototype aircraft first featured the nose turret in June 1932—roughly...
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Starfighter 1959 McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II 1960 North American XB-70 Valkyrie 1964 Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird 1966 Douglas A-4 Skyhawk 1966 Surveyor...
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Trophy in 1939 flying an earthquake relief mission to Chile in the Boeing XB-15, and delivered the first B-24 Liberator to the UK, pioneering the northern...
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