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
Category: Heritage
RCAF to forge flying wings using aluminum from wreckage of Halifax bomber
A Halifax bomber LW682 was shot down on May 13, 1944 in Belgium, the wreckage was recovered in 1997 and the Royal Canadian Air Force has decided to use eight ingots of aluminum that had been cast from the melted down aircraft for “full wing” flying badges.
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“It’s my intent . . . to use some of this metal from the 426 Halifax and put it in the new wings we’re creating for the Royal Canadian Air Force,” commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Lieutenant-General Mike Hood said.
Russia’s Northern Fleet divers recover P-39
A Bell P-39 Airacobra that has been lying on the bottom of a lake on the Kola Peninsula for 72 years was recently raised to the surface on Jun. 29 by divers from the Russian Northern Fleet.
By Bergfalke2 (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Dutch AH-64Ds to be protected by AN/AAR-57A(V)7
The Trump administration has approved the sale of AN/AAR-57A(V)7 Common Missile Warning Systems (CMWS) to Netherlands and the Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress on Jul. 10.
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Monument to mark the fatal crash of F-111B
The Grumman Memorial park will be getting a monument to mark the crash of a F-111B in 1967 that killed two Grumman test pilots.
By U.S. Navy [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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