Category: Heritage

A rare Kawasaki Ha40 liquid-cooled inline V engine has been discovered at a construction site in Ryuta-cho, Goko-sho, Higashiomi City, Shiga Prefecture. The engine was used to power the Kawasaki Ki-61, the only mass-produced Japanese fighter during the Second World War that uses such an arrangement.

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The Hagerstown Aviation Museum has acquired a 1993 Fairchild RC-26B Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) to add to its invaluable collection of historic Fairchild built aircraft.

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It was a day that many people in Central Illinois will never forget. The U.S. Presidential aircraft, Air Force One, had one of its wheels stuck in the mud at Willard Airport in Savoy. President Bill Clinton was on his way to speak at the University of Illinois at the time.

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Imagine seeing an F-15E Strike Eagle with no souls onboard take off with a large missile mounted on top of the fueslage, it’s a pretty cool sight to behold. In 2006, Boeing proposed an unmanned variant of the F-15E Strike Eagle, called the F-15 Global Strike Eagle (GSE), for air-launching missiles with the launch vehicle mounted dorsally.

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