Category: Heritage
Lost de Havilland Mosquito blueprints discovered
More than 20,000 engineering drawings and diagrams for the de Havilland Mosquito have been found, just days before bulldozers were due to destroy their hiding place.
By British official photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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DH9 found in an elephants’ stable in India has been fully restored
A rare DH9 has been painstakingly restored by the Historic Aircraft Collection and there are hopes to make it airworthy by end of this year.
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RB-47 co-pilot shot down and imprisoned by Soviets to be buried at Arlington
Fifty-seven years after he was shot down by the Soviet Union and later imprisoned for seven months, Bruce Olmstead will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on Jul. 27. The former RB-47 co-pilot died last October.
By U.S. Air Force photo [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The birth of the Cobra
Air & Space Magazine spoke to former Bell engineer Mike Folse, the man who created the AH-1 attack helicopter. Link to the story is below.
Source: Redstone Arsenal archives