Word: b26
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...century, his last words were reported to be: "Sacrifices must be made." In the museum's military aviation exhibits, that sense of sacrifice is pervasive, if in a different context. The most durable warplanes are there: the Fokker, Spad XVI (Billy Mitchell's own), P-40E, B26, Spitfire, German Messerschmitt and Italian Macchi MC-202. So is the old workhorse of World War II-and beyond-the DC-3. Said one former combat pilot, standing before a full-scale diorama of aerial combat with a B-17 under attack: "It's so real that you want...
...creating miniature electrical fields and ionizing the air around them. The ionization increases the conductivity of air within the thunderhead and allows electrons to flow from the bottom of the cloud to the top, sharply reducing the electrical potential and thus preventing lightning. In one seeding run by the B26, for instance, a charge of 300,000 volts per meter in a thunderhead was completely neutralized in only ten minutes...