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Dark Alley Dan
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There was an article some time ago in Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine about them. One test pilot on the program said "There was never nothing wrong with them." With nicknames like "The Gutless Cutlass", you know power just wasn't there when you needed it.
In service only a couple years. They really were crapwagons. And yet...
Yep, Blue Angels, but only very briefly. They hated them too.
They weren't an ugly bird. Just overcomplicated, underengineered, underpowered, and unsafe.
There was an article some time ago in Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine about them. One test pilot on the program said "There was never nothing wrong with them." With nicknames like "The Gutless Cutlass", you know power just wasn't there when you needed it.
In service only a couple years. They really were crapwagons. And yet...
Yep, Blue Angels, but only very briefly. They hated them too.
They weren't an ugly bird. Just overcomplicated, underengineered, underpowered, and unsafe.
Lot of Flops in the early days of jet aviation,it was after all an entirely new field.
Grizz
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Heinze Otto-Schultz, C.O. of U-432. On the evening of May 30, 1942, U432 attacked & sank the steamer:"Liverpool Packet."
Two era's were killed in the attack. Schultz did not survive the war. Apparently there are no surviving members of his family according to an article on the Packet sinking. Survivors of the Liverpool Packet were allowed to make their way to freedom. They were finally rescued after rowing for twenty hours against strong currents off Seal Island.
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Doenitz, the man who succeeded Hitler during the last days of WWll. Used to welcome back his U boots personally.
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Dark Alley Dan
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London, 1940, and Mister Hitler's NAZI thugs won't bloody derail her special day.
The English. Kinda wonderful.
The English. Kinda wonderful.
London, 1940, and Mister Hitler's NAZI thugs won't bloody derail her special day.
The English. Kinda wonderful.
The English have never let silly little things like all-out war stop them from tea time - never mind a bloomin' wedding!!!
Stiff upper lip and all that!!
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The Martin XB-51 had an interesting history.
Martin built two. The first one was lost at Edwards.
The second one was briefly famous. It starred in a William Holden movie - "Toward the UNknown" - as the "Gilbert XF-120":
Not much later it crashed, killing the flight engineer and badly burning the pilot, who later died.
The last remaining piece:
Thus goes all flesh. Damn shame. It was a pretty thing.
Martin built two. The first one was lost at Edwards.
The second one was briefly famous. It starred in a William Holden movie - "Toward the UNknown" - as the "Gilbert XF-120":
Not much later it crashed, killing the flight engineer and badly burning the pilot, who later died.
The last remaining piece:
Thus goes all flesh. Damn shame. It was a pretty thing.
The Martin XB-51 had an interesting history.
Martin built two. The first one was lost at Edwards.
The second one was briefly famous. It starred in a William Holden movie - "Toward the UNknown" - as the "Gilbert XF-120":
Not much later it crashed, killing the flight engineer and badly burning the pilot, who later died.
The last remaining piece:
Thus goes all flesh. Damn shame. It was a pretty thing.
OUACH!
Look like a flying brick.
The Martin XB-51 had an interesting history.
Martin built two. The first one was lost at Edwards.
The second one was briefly famous. It starred in a William Holden movie - "Toward the UNknown" - as the "Gilbert XF-120":
Not much later it crashed, killing the flight engineer and badly burning the pilot, who later died.
The last remaining piece:
Thus goes all flesh. Damn shame. It was a pretty thing.
3 engines?
