Tag: aviation
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Fokker FVIIB Southern Cross Replica
Fokker FVIIB Southern Cross Replica Southern Cross is a flying replica of the famous record breaking Southern Cross Fokker FV11B of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith from the 1920s and 1930s. Built in South Australia in the period 1980 to 1987 as a tribute to Smithy, the aircraft toured Australia during the 1988 Bicentenary raising money… Read more
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Douglas XB-19
Douglas XB-19 The Douglas XB-19 project was intended to test flight characteristics and design techniques for giant bombers. Despite advances in technology that made the XB-19 obsolete before it was completed, the Army Air Corps believed the prototype would be useful for testing despite Douglas Aircraft wanting to cancel the expensive project. Its construction took… Read more
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Morane-Saulnier M.S.406
Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 The Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 was France’s most numerous pre-war/early-war single-seat fighter and the evolution of the earlier M.S.405 prototype. Designed to meet a 1934 French “C1” requirement for a modern single-seat interceptor, the M.S.405 (first flown 8 August 1935) was developed into the production M.S.406 with a stronger airframe and the Hispano-Suiza 12Y engine;… Read more