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Jun
11
2012
What’s That? :: Last of its Kind
Posted by HW on 11 Jun 2012 /
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This Week’s Hints to help you along: The markings might help, but then again maybe not. Delivered in 1942 to this country’s air force. Served as a foreign air force’s training plane, like the venerable SNJ/T-6 Texan. Production ceased in 1943 with almost 1,400 built by two manufacturers. So do you know what this plane […]
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Jun
11
2012
The Fate of the Örnen
Posted by HW on 11 Jun 2012 /
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Published on June 11, 2012 The cold of White Island, in the Arctic north, is unrelenting. Known as Kvitøya, Arctic Norway, the site is desolate and uninhabited. It is also the place where in 1930 the remains of a balloon expedition and the bodies of three men were discovered frozen in the permafrost. After an […]
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