Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The California Coastal Records Project, founded in 2002, [1] documents the California coastline with aerial photos taken from a helicopter flying parallel to the shore. Their webpage provides access to these images. One photo was taken every 500 feet. [2] [3] Each photo showed a few hundred yards of the coastline, with frames overlapping. [4]
The B-25 medium bomber was one the most famous airplanes of World War II. It was the type used by Gen. Jimmy Doolittle for the famous Doolittle Raid over Japan on 18 April 1942. The first B-25 test aircraft flew on 19 August 1940, and the first production Mitchell was delivered to the 17th Bombardment Group in February 1941. A total of 9,816 ...
The Fisher 25 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of glassfibre, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop or optional ketch rig, a raked stem, an angled transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a wheel in the pilot house and a tiller in the cockpit, and a fixed long keel. It displaces 10,079 lb (4,572 kg) and carries 4,705 lb ...
Long Beach Army Airfield, 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Long Beach; 6th Ferrying Group (Air Transport Command) Delivery airport for Douglas Aircraft (B-17, A-26, C-47) 348th Army Air Force Base Unit Now: Long Beach Airport (IATA: LGB, ICAO: KLGB, FAA LID: LGB) Lomita Flight Strip, 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of Downtown Torrance
Seacliff State Beach is a state beach park on Monterey Bay, in the town of Aptos, Santa Cruz County, California. It is located off Highway 1 on State Park Drive, about 5 miles (8 km) south of Santa Cruz. The beach is most known for the concrete ship SS Palo Alto lying in the water. North of Seacliff State Beach is New Brighton State Beach.
Com-Pac 23 Pilothouse This model was introduced in 2011 and features a pilothouse from which the boat can be steered by a wheel in inclement weather. It has a length overall of 23.92 ft (7.3 m), a waterline length of 20.16 ft (6.1 m), displaces 3,500 lb (1,588 kg) and carries 1,340 lb (608 kg) of ballast.
A pilothouse yacht is designed to allow the crew to maintain a safe and effective watch without needing to be on deck. There must be all-round visibility from within the yacht's accommodation – this allows the crewmember to be able to keep watch comfortably whilst fully protected from the elements.
44-29943 – in storate by private owner in Borrego Springs, California. [149] 44-30203 – for display by the Pacific Coast Air Museum in Santa Rosa, California. [150] 44-30210 – to flightworthiness by private owner in Tulsa, Oklahoma. [151] 44-30324 – to flightworthiness by private owner in San Martin, California. [152]