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In an interview published in Automobile in March 2009, Felice Anderloni told Robert Cumberford: "At first we did all the road cars for Ferrari....
Looking down on Pensacola yesterday afternoon from way in the back of an MD90. Came to see our daughter get her Wings of Gold as a NFO, selected...
"MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. A catastrophic engine failure is the likely cause of a Jan. 4 incident in which a B-52 lost one of its eight...
I'm reading a little book on the Bentley BR2, and author L.K. Blackmore says WO Bentley used aluminum pistons in a competition Doriot, Flandrin &...
"Last year, we delivered 495 737s from our factory in Renton, Wash., to customers around the world. One in every 3 of those 737s were bound for...
A few minutes of the B-36 starting engines and taking off from the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGjyH2ulsCk
Maybe not spot-on. As Taz said, it appears to be an uncontained engine failure. Might have taken out a tire. Somehow missed the cabin. As the...
What we need is a new batch of "Let Bob Fly" posters, or better stickers. --Carter from the Times obit: Mr. Hoover flew well into his...
I read his obituary in the NYT this morning but the on-line copy has more photos and a couple videos. Amazing lifetime! --Carter...
I found this long update in yesterday's Aviation Herald fascinating: Accident: Virgin Australia AT72 near Sydney on Feb 20th 2014, control...
Posted by Tcar on the Growler thread : "Be nice to see more of these planes... both of them." Thanks. Here are a couple more. What was...
I didn't take a "portrait" of the Growler, just some detail shots and some angles that I liked. But here are a couple more and I'll add a few to...
The second plane of special interest to me was the 757-200 NA001 test bed modified to test radar sensors for the F22 and carrying much of an F22...
Last weekend. As Christian Sasfai said, rain Saturday, wonderful Sunday. Two planes of interest: a new EA18-G, 169124, with just 5 test hours on...
Looked for a Curtiss V12 at the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola this weekend but the only engine, a Conqueror, was in the F6C-1 Hawk. And I...
Taz-- The paper on "Langley's aero engine of 1903" includes the same de Dion engine as was was used on an 1898 Renault I worked on at Hill &...
Stretching a little off topic, but a friend pointed out that the monograph on the Curtiss engine is one of a series of 10, and they all look...
For any engine geek that pdf is exciting! I learned that there is a Curtiss F6C-1 Hawk with a D.12 Conqueror engine on display at the...
Taz-- 1570 cubic inches. The description of the engine caught my interest, and I found a monograph on the D-12 engine from which it was...
cleared for take off!
