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A picture from the Tempelhof Airport (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Tempelhof_Airport) in Berlin from late 1935. In the foreground is the Junkers Ju 86 Prototype V4. This JU 86 was equipped with the Junkers Jumo 205 Diesel engines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Jumo_205) The 5th plane from the bottom the JU 52 D-2600, which was the plane of the "Führer" Adolf Hitler. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Those do not stay open long, so wonder if this was staged, especially since it looks like a near simultaneous AIM-120 and 2 AIM-9 launches.
((The inspiration for this post is the space shuttle carrier on display at the visitor center for NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It is number 905 and the first of two shuttle carrier aircraft. Can you imagine the conversation? "We need to be able to test the shuttle's ability to glide home for a landing. We also need to transport the space shuttle around the country. How are we going to do that? We're all out of ideas. We can't fly it. We can't tow it behind a truck. We can't put it on a train." Two guys from the back row: "How about flying it piggyback on top of a 747? We could build a model to try it out." And they did... John Kiker and Owen Morris built a 1/40-scale radio-controlled model of the Space Shuttle on top of a Boeing 747 to prove that the configuration was viable. The model is on display at the visitor center.)) https://ace.mu.nu/ Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
We don't have a museum thread? Upstate NY. Visited a few years ago...something for everyone...planes boats bikes... Museum Spotlight: The Glenn Curtiss Museum, Hammondsport, New York Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login https://bringatrailer.com/2025/10/17/museum-spotlight-the-glenn-curtiss-museum-hammondsport-new-york/
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Lockheed continually comes out with these 'think outside the box' designs.. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Here we have one of the more then 30 Dornier Do J Wal (whale) which were used by Lufthansa between 1934 and 1938 for the transatlantic mail service fromGermay via West Africa to Brazil. Image Unavailable, Please Login
I didn't know until recently the the B-29 program was considerably more costly than the Manhattan project. $3.0-3.7 billion (1945 dollars) vs $1.9 billion.
The Focke-Wulf Fw 200 "Condor" was designed as a civilian long-range airliner and completed its maiden flight on July 27, 1937, after only one year of development. Powered by 4 BMW Bramo 323, 9 cylinder radials with app. 1,000 hp each it had a range of app. 2,000 nm at a speed of 180 kn. On August 10, 1938, the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 V1 "Condor" (D-ACON), serial number 2000, flew for Lufthansa under the command of Captain Alfred Henke, becoming the first land-based long-range passenger aircraft to complete a non-stop flight of 6,371 kilometers from Berlin-Staaken to Floyd Bennett Field in New York City in 24 hours, 56 minutes, and 12 seconds. On the return flight from Floyd Bennett Field to Berlin-Tempelhof, the aircraft covered a distance of 6,392 km in 19 hours and 55 minutes. Both flights were recognized by the FAI as flight route records. The Fw 200 "Condor" could carry 26 passengers and fly a range of 1,500 kilometers in scheduled service. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Look at the flex in the B52's wing. That T38 might find some severe turbulence ahead Image Unavailable, Please Login
That is an F-104. T-38 would have been pretty worthless for chasing an X-15. Wing is still rebounding from releasing 14,000 lb (empty)- 34,000 lb (fueled) aircraft. Rocket plume indicates she was at least partially fueled.
