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The last operational USAF B-17 mission was on 6 August 1959, when DB-17P 44-83684 (Originally a Douglas/Long Beach B-17G-90-DL) directed QB-17G 44-83717 which was expended as a target for an AIM-4 Falcon air-to-air missile fired from an F-101 Voodoo, near Holloman AFB, New Mexico. 44-83684 arrived at Davis-Monthan AFB for storage a few days ...
Built at Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach, CA as a B-17G. Delivered July 1944, assigned in August to 97th Bombardment Group at Amendola Airfield, Italy. [28] Became command aircraft of Lt Gen Ira C. Eaker, replacing his earlier B-17E, and was named "Starduster". [29] Reconfigured and used by Eaker until his 1947 retirement, then VIP transport ...
A TB-17G, built as a B-17G-70-BO, 43-37700, [90] of the 325th Combat Crew Training Squadron, [109] Avon Park Army Airfield, Florida, crashes six miles S of Ridgeland, South Carolina, after the number 2 (port inner) engine catches fire at 10,000 feet during a flight from Stewart Field, New York, to its home base in Florida. Pilot Lieutenant ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -January brings several consequential dates for the U.S. Congress as Republicans consolidate power as a result of last November's elections with full control of the Senate ...
A record number of U.S. CEOs exited their jobs this year, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, which said companies are responding to an uncertain landscape by installing temporary leaders ...
Ukraine needs to get younger people into the military to succeed in the war being waged against it by Russia, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday. Blinken's comments, in an ...
From January 2008 to April 2011, if you bought shares in companies when David Owen joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a -7.3 percent return on your investment, compared to a -7.1 percent return from the S&P 500.
BT-13 Valiant A restored Vultee BT-13 over an Airshow in Dallas, 2019 General information Type Trainer Manufacturer Vultee Aircraft Primary users United States Army Air Forces United States Navy Number built 9,525 History Introduction date June 1940 First flight March 1939 The Vultee BT-13 Valiant is an American World War II -era basic (a category between primary and advanced) trainer aircraft ...