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[Duckmanreno]

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Early model with the bird cage canopy

 

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[SatelliteOfLove]

Chuck Yeager on his big day.

Same attitude the other pilot with the same goal.

 

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"If you landed and could fly the plane the next day, it was a good landing."

 

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VF-17 No.39 William L. "Country" Landreth Bougainville 1944

 

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Using their home-made apparatus constructed of coconut
logs, VMF-124 mechanics bore site the machine guns in
an F4U Corsair - Guadalcanal - June 1943.

 

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[SatelliteOfLove]

She was a beauty.

 

[Photon440]

Still one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built, able to super-cruise at + mach 2, with a 4400 mile range. Not many jet fighters can claim that.

 

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Still one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built, able to super-cruise at + mach 2, with a 4400 mile range. Not many jet fighters can claim that.

I remember reading regarding it's speed using a 747 as a reference on the same route, London to New York.

If they both took off at the same time for New York.
The Concorde could land in New York deplane passenger's and reload, return to London , deplane passenger's and reload, return to New York deplane and reload and Return to London and deplane, before the 747 arrived in New York.

 

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[Basket case]

Running the R-2800-59 is a major milestone in the restoration of P-47 42-27609. The Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp R-2800 used in the P-47 is an eighteen-cylinder, double-row radial weighing approximately 2350 pounds. The cylinder bore is 5.75 inches and the piston stroke is 6 inches. The cylinder volume swept by all 18 pistons combined is 2804 cubic inches. For a rough analogy of the sheer size of the cylinders, consider that at 155.7 cubic inches (or 2.55 liters,) each cylinder displaces slightly more than the entire standard 4 cylinder engine in a Toyota Camry or Ford Fusion.

 

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