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The Aircraft Carrier Blimp
Though today seen as slow, floating billboards, blimps once played a pivotal and unexpected role in World War II by helping the U.S. Navy hunt Nazi U-boats in the Atlantic. In 1942, as German ...
From 40 millimeter Hurricanes to 102 millimeter flying artillery, WW2’s biggest aircraft cannons were supposed to stop tanks ...
TUSTIN, Calif. — A raging fire Tuesday destroyed a massive World War II-era wooden hangar that was built to house military blimps based in Southern California, and authorities said the blaze ...
Planes will be overhead Friday as World War II weekend gets underway in Berks County. And for the first time ever, we're getting a look at a plane with a connection to bomber pilot and academy ...
During WW1 Andrews' Mill in Comber made linen yarn to cover fighter planes.
Susan Morrison meets curator Ian Brown at the National Museum of Flight in East Lothian. The story of Edwin Dunning’s pioneering landing of a plane on a moving ship ...