Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Force bid a fitting farewell to the planes. After a running start over the Pacific, an SR-71 streaked across the U.S., arriving outside Washington in record time: 68 min. 17 sec. That plane's final destination is the National Air and Space Museum. But the Air Force mothballed three Blackbirds for possible future...
...bins in the shop is cluttered with wing sections, striped fabric, fuselage stringers and bulkheads. No plane is immediately discernible in this jumble of disparate parts. You stare for a few seconds, and then the puzzle begins to come together -- a Hawker Hurricane. You drift back 49 years, and you can hear again the urgent voice of Edward R. Murrow coming over the old cathedral radio, describing the dogfights above him in the Battle of Britain. Hurricanes, though less glamorous than the legendary Spitfires, took more punishment and could be patched up and sent back into battle quicker...
William Stevenson has worked up in the bomb bay, and he says softly, "It's eerie. There are not many artifacts about which you can say, 'That altered the world.' This one did." You know what Stevenson is talking about when you climb into the plane's greenhouse nose, and you try to imagine how the nuclear fireball must have etched the day with its hideous brightness...
...with Lieut. Frank Lahm, one of the first military pilots, at his side. Garber ran up the hill to Fort Myer, where President William Howard Taft was witnessing the birth of American air power. Years later, Garber, by then a friend of the Wright brothers, acquired both their original plane and the Military Flyer for the Smithsonian...
...been in service for only seven weeks when it began the approach for its scheduled landing in Bangalore after a 90-minute flight from Bombay. Moments before it was to touch down, in perfect flying weather, something went wrong. Falling short of the runway by 4,000 ft., the plane crash-landed on a golf course. The toll: 90 dead and 55 injured. A sole passenger escaped unhurt...