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Pocket Jet!
This Week’s Hints to help you along: A sub-mach mystery aircraft with a short history. The ultimate “V-tailed Doctor Killer” perhaps? Seats two — a pilot and the “guy in back”. No better way to eat a $2,000 hamburger. Bankrupt. So do you know what this aircraft is? Post a REPLY below [...]
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The Mystery of Immelmann’s Final Flight
Published on July 20, 2016 By Thomas Van Hare “It was 9 in the evening, when the rat-tat of aerial machine guns lured me out of my quarters, and I saw at a height of several thousand yards five aeroplanes in a hot fight; two Fokkers and three English and French biplanes.” On June [...]
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Not a Salamander
This Week’s Hints to help you along: Form follows function and thus, it appears like a Salamander. The wings appear the same as on the Bell X-1 “Glamorous Glennis”. Never flew, despite great promise in the design. The pilot would fly while lying down, prone, in the cockpit. A single engine super jet that was [...]
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