 The
U. S. Marine Corps brought in an
MV22B Osprey. This remarkable aircraft can take off and land
vertically while having the ability to fly like a fixed wing airplane.
Impressive! |
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 Here
is a military
AC47, which was flown by the U. S. Air Force as a "Spooky."
Used mostly in Vietnam, they were gunships to aid troops on the ground
and were sometimes called "Puff the Magic Dragon." |
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each photo for a better/larger view |
 Duggy,
the
"Smile
in the Sky." It is a Douglas DC-3, which was developed as an
airliner in the mid-1930's. Many were in use into the 1970's as
commuter airlines in this country. |
|
 Spookeys
(photo above) had three six-barrel MXU-470 Miniguns, which would shoot
6000 rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition per minute. That is 18,000
rounds per minute total. An awesome weapon in time of war. |
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better/larger view |
 One
of Mark's favorite airplanes. It is the B-25 Mitchell bomber from
the 1930's. This one is named "Miss
Mitchell."
There is a lot of history here. See
photo and text to the right. |
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 Seventeen
of these planes took off from an aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean
to bomb Tokyo, Japan, just 4 months after the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii, in 1941. The raid was told in the movie
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo starring Spencer Tracy as Lieutenant
Colonel Jimmy Doolittle. |
