Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 27, 2025

After going through a series of conventional and unconventional designs, engineers Clarence “Kelly” Johnson and Hall Hibbard drew up a twin boom tail design, with an Allison V-1710 inline engine on the front of each boom ahead of the singular, cantilever wing, and a fuselage pod in between the two engines and booms.

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Tail Ferry Flight Approach 75

Aerotime

JANUARY 15, 2025

Sporting tail numbers 28000 and 29000, the VC-25As have been transporting heads of state for the US since 1987. With the two aircraft rapidly approaching 40 years old, theyre becoming less cost-effective to operate. The second, tail number N479EV, did enter service, fighting its first fire in Cuenca, Spain in 2009.

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Cargo Ferry Flight Tail Horizontal Stabilizer 267

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 12, 2024

The C-47 also had an astrodome positioned in the cabin roof, strengthened floor components, a double cargo door and a shortened tail-cone for glider-towing shackles, all of which the C-49 did not have. In January 2017, it was cleared for a maintenance ferry flight from Frederick to Tulsa.

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Cargo Hangar Ferry Flight Weather 116