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Fred Vann Cherry (March 24, 1928 – February 16, 2016) [1] was a colonel and command pilot in the U.S. Air Force. A career fighter pilot, ...
The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a large military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed, and now maintained and upgraded by its successor, Lockheed Martin.It provides the United States Air Force (USAF) with a heavy intercontinental-range strategic airlift capability, one that can carry outsized and oversized loads, including all air-certifiable cargo.
Ferguson joined the United States Army from Phoenix, Arizona in 1958, and by January 31, 1968 was a chief warrant officer 3 in command of a UH-1 Huey as part of Company C, 227th Aviation Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile).
A 2013 review of the radio transcripts and other data by astronomer and retired United States Air Force pilot James McGaha and author Joe Nickell proposes that the inexperienced Valentich was deceived by the illusion of a tilted horizon for which he attempted to compensate and inadvertently put his aircraft into a downward, so-called "graveyard ...
Among them were the C-140 Jetstar Laminar Flow Control, F-111 Mission Adaptive Wing, F-14 Variable Sweep Flow Transition, Space Shuttle orbiter drag chute and F-111 crew module parachute tests with the B-52, and X-29 vortex flow control. [1] As project pilot on the B-52 launch aircraft, Fullerton was involved in tests to develop a new F-111 ...
Data from EAA Museum, Federal Aviation Administration, Plane & Pilot General characteristics Crew: one Capacity: one passenger Length: 20 ft 9 in (6.32 m) Wingspan: 30 ft 0 in (9.14 m) Height: 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) Wing area: 142.6 sq ft (13.25 m 2) Airfoil: NACA 43013 Powerplant: 1 × Continental C75-12 4-cylinder air-cooled horizontally-opposed piston engine, 75 hp (56 kW) Propellers: 2-bladed ...
The Charlotte Hornets organization was apparently visited by three ghosts last night. A day after receiving criticism for a skit in which a child was "given" a PlayStation 5 then had it taken away ...
Although Errol Flynn had a pilot's license, he was expressly forbidden to fly in the production, under threat of suspension from Warner Bros. due to his "buzzing" the cast and crew of 1938's The Adventures of Robin Hood. Flynn did taxi a dive bomber to allow closeups of him in the cockpit during a critical scene when his character "is testing a ...