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Vintage Aviation News on MSN4d
First Flight of the Savoia-Marchetti SM.95
On May 8, 1943, the Savoia-Marchetti SM.95, Italy's large four-engine transport aircraft, made its maiden flight. Originally ...
The true story of the secret program that brought Nazi scientists to the U.S.
After World War II, Operation Paperclip quietly recruited German scientists to work on its most advanced weapons and space ...
AeroTime6d
Historic WW2 Japanese Mitsubishi Zero performs first flight after restoration
A Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero, the first Model 32 variant to fly since 1945, has successfully completed its first flight after an ...
WNCT Greenville on MSN7d
He missed the flight that killed 138 Now he’s giving back in Vietnam
Jason Kayser was supposed to be on that plane—until he was pulled off moments before takeoff. It was a life-saving fresh ...
The children of the Vietnam War’s ‘Operation Babylift’ have turned 50. A look at the lives they built.
Operation Babylift was an effort led by the American military to rescue babies from Vietnamese orphanages ahead of the fall ...
Weapons of war are launching from Cape Canaveral for the first time since 1988
The Army's Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon fired out of a canister on a road-mobile trailer shortly after sunrise on Florida's ...
Radio Iowa7d
Latest honor flight for Iowa veterans takes off tomorrow from Fort Dodge
“Our first flight was May 1st of 2010 and all of the ... this flight is sandwiched between the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War last week and the end of World War Two in Europe ...
Honor Flight in Washington today with local veterans
ESCANABA — Upper Peninsula Honor Flight will be making its first all-women veteran flight to Washington, DC today, as well as May 21. Honor Flight Network is a nonprofit that celebrates military ...