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New Swiss Government Jet Too Big For Hangar, Too Heavy For Runway!?

Simple Flying

Media outlets have also reported that the airports runway is too short for the aircraft to operate with a full payload. Only after ordering the jet was it discovered that the Bombardier Global 7500 does NOT fit into the existing building in Bern-Belp - the airport where the Swiss Federal Council would typically store such an aircraft.

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Surprise in the Skies: TF-104 Starfighter Joins Aviation PhotoCrew Mission at Sun ‘N Fun

Vintage Aviation News

headquartered at Kennedy Space Center operates the only commercial fleet of aircraft capable of flying at sustained MACH 2 and launching payloads at altitude. Starfighters Space Inc.

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House of The B-23 Dragon

Vintage Aviation News

An aircraft hangar can hold many secrets. Tucked alongside the wall of the “big” hangar at the National Warplane Museum (NWM), in Geneseo, New York is one such example of a tale that deserves to be written and subsequently read. They wanted it to have double the payload of their current bomber, the Martin B-10.

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Building The Last B-36 ‘Peacemaker’…in a Garage

Vintage Aviation News

In one of the display hangars, they came upon the Aluminum Overcast. The Peacemaker was the only American aircraft with the range and payload to carry atomic bombs from American soil to the USSR. In 1983, at the age of 5, he and his father took a trip to the National Museum of the United States Air Force, in Dayton, Ohio.

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Voices from Combat: The Consolidated PB2Y Coronado Becomes a Bomber

Vintage Aviation News

The Coronados wrecked the airfield and destroyed hangars, aircraft, barracks, mess halls, fuel dumps, and communication equipment, as well as the motor torpedo boats Guroaitei No. 5 and Guroaitei No. The wingtip floats of the Coronado retracted to form the wingtips of the aircraft, as this evocative head-on shot shows.

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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Breguet Deux-Ponts

Vintage Aviation News

Breguet 761 Deux-Ponts F-WASM, the first prototype, rolled out of one of the hangars at Villacoublay, having been modified to the third tail of a Br 761S. (US There, the dimensions of the two vertical stabilizers were increased, and a third stabilizer with no rudder was added to the tail to counteract yaw instability.

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Northern Pacific Airways Unveils First Aircraft

NYC Aviation

Tuesday evening saw a significant milestone in Northern Pacific Airways’ path to launch, as they unveiled their first aircraft at a paint hangar in San Bernardino, California.

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