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U.S. Marines with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 461, Marine Aircraft Group 29, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), transport an F-35B Lightning II near Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, Aug. 27, 2025. The F-35, known as BF-1, was the first F-35 to perform a vertical landing and was transported to Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina, for use as a permanent static display. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Bryan Giraldo)
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I'd mentioned the Boeing 720 in the past, a shortened 707 with speedy performance. Who Likes Aircraft ?
While touring the National Air Force Museum last week (Trenton Air Force Base, Ontario, Canada) I came across the last 720 that ever flew - it was the Pratt & Whitney flying test bed for engines. Its final flight was in 2012.
You can see it's modified test bed nose here...
While touring the National Air Force Museum last week (Trenton Air Force Base, Ontario, Canada) I came across the last 720 that ever flew - it was the Pratt & Whitney flying test bed for engines. Its final flight was in 2012.
You can see it's modified test bed nose here...
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Also at that same museum, one of only three Handley Page Halifax bombers remaining in the world.
The museum was actually constructed around the aircraft, there's no way to get it out of the building.
The museum was actually constructed around the aircraft, there's no way to get it out of the building.
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One more from the museum...a very early example of swept wings. The Dunne D.8 was purchased by the Canadian Aviation Corps, a precursor the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1914. This recreation is in the museum. Noted not only for the swept wings, it is also a pusher design, is a float plane and has no tail.
Dunne D.8 - Wikipedia
Wikipedia photo of wheeled version:
Dunne D.8 - Wikipedia
Wikipedia photo of wheeled version:
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Pretty cool when the Snowbird team does a, 9 bird formation, 4 leaf clover over my Irish Field on their area familiarization flight for tomorrow night's display.
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BTW... had planned to fly home tomorrow, but now I can't as the airspace is NOTAM'd closed. Truck it is, I'll grab the Lund's boat trailer while there.
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