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HAER No. OH-79-E, "Area B, Building 31, Aircraft Assembly Hangar", 15 photos, 4 measured drawings, 6 data pages, 1 photo caption page HAER No. OH-79-F, " Area B, Building 65, Static Structural Test Laboratory ", 9 photos, 3 measured drawings, 4 data pages, 1 photo caption page
(Red Bird Aircraft Co (pres: Harry Frey), Bern KS; Oklahoma City OK.) ... Red Bird 1928 Biplane [5] Red Wing (Red Wing Airplane Club, Cicero IL.) ... Whelan Co, South ...
Secretary, Aerial Experiment Association (1907–09); [11] U.S. Army Lieutenant who assisted the AEA in engineering, designing and piloting the Red Wing; first U.S. Military officer to pilot a powered aircraft White Wing (19 May 1908); [citation needed] first fatality of powered flight (17 Sep 1908). [nb 30] Igor Sikorsky: 25 May 1889 26 Oct 1972
A USAF Boeing B-29 Superfortress, 44-87651, of the 99th Bomb Squadron, 9th Bomb Group, 9th Bomb Wing, carrying a Mark 4 nuclear bomb, suffers runaway propellers and landing gear retraction problems during takeoff at Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base, Fairfield, California; concerned that the aircraft cannot clear rising terrain ahead, aircraft ...
F-16 and C-130 aircraft of all OHANG units display the tail code "OH". In 2005 the 179th Airlift Wing, 121st Air Refueling Wing, 180th Fighter Wing, 178th Fighter Wing, 200th Red Horse Squadron, 251st Combat Communications Group, 269th combat Communications Squadron, 123rd Air Control Squadron were deployed in response to Hurricane Katrina.
Red Wing was destroyed in a crash on its second flight on March 17, 1908, and only the engine could be salvaged. On May 19, 1908, Selfridge became the first US military officer to pilot a modern aircraft, when he flew solo in AEA's newest craft, White Wing, traveling 100 feet (30 m) on his first attempt and 200 feet (61 m) on his second. [6]
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The first prototype of the VL Myrsky (State Aircraft Factory Storm), a low-wing single-seat cantilever monoplane fighter completed on 30 April 1943, crashes "a week later." [57] 8 May A USAAF Douglas C-33, 36–85, c/n 1518, of the 482d Air Base Squadron, is written off at Hill Field, Ogden, Utah, when the landing gear retracts on take off.