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A Stroke of Marketing Genius: Local Businesses, Vintage Aircraft, And Their Unusual Association

Vintage Aviation News

Over the years, the plane became a local legend, with kids getting to play inside the cockpit, and many local teenagers made their first paychecks filling gas under the wings of the old bomber. A young Art Lacey before the ferry flight. Art Lacey posing with his wife in front of the “Bomber Gas Station.”

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National Air and Space Museum Prepares for a New WWII Gallery

Vintage Aviation News

On July 25, 1944, Darbois took this Bf 109G-6 (Werknummer 160756 ‘Yellow 4’ of Jagdgeschwader 4) on a formation ferry flight over northern Italy. This version of the famed Wildcat fighter was in fact identical to the Grumman-built F4F-4 but with four.50

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