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  2. Rare Bear - Wikipedia

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    Rare Bear has set many performance records for piston-driven aircraft, including the 3 km World Speed Record of 528.33 mph (850.26 km/h) set August 21, 1989, which still stands in this class, and a new time-to-climb record (3,000 meters in 91.9 seconds set in 1972 (9842.4 ft – 6,426 fpm), breaking a 1946 record set in a stock Bearcat.

  3. Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum is a U.S.A. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the display and preservation of rare military aircraft, tanks and other military equipment. The museum reopened on the Memorial Day Weekend 2023.

  4. Grumman F8F Bearcat - Wikipedia

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    Rare Bear, a highly modified F8F owned by Lyle Shelton, went on to dominate the event for decades, often competing with Daryl Greenamyer, another famous racer with victories in his own Bearcat (Conquest I, now at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum) and holder of a piston-engined aircraft world speed record in it. Rare Bear also set ...

  5. List of surviving examples of mass-produced aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Commemorative Air Force: 1945- Based at the Commemorative Air Force Museum in Mesa, Arizona, and regularly flown. Shoo Shoo Baby: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Bomber 1944-1961 Crash-landed in Sweden in 1944. Restored from 1978 to 1988. Swamp Ghost: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Bomber 1941 Ran out of fuel and crash-landed in a swamp in Papua New ...

  6. List of aircraft at the National Museum of the United States ...

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    Martin Model 139WAA – export version of B-10 bomber, painted in Air Corps livery [23] Nieuport 28 C.1 [24] North American NA-64 – painted as a North American BT-9 or BT-14 [25] North American O-47B 39-112 [26] Northrop A-17 36-207 [27] Packard-Le Pere LUSAC-11 [28] Sopwith Camel – reproduction [29] SPAD VII 94099 [30] SPAD XIII 16594 [31 ...

  7. 19 photos show a rare side of the world that aircraft ... - AOL

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    The exclusive group of military aircraft crew members have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, and they get a totally different view of the world. 19 photos show a rare side of the world ...

  8. Seversky P-35 - Wikipedia

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    The Seversky P-35 is an American fighter aircraft built by the Seversky Aircraft Company in the late 1930s. A contemporary of the Hawker Hurricane and Messerschmitt Bf 109, the P-35 was the first single-seat fighter in United States Army Air Corps to feature all-metal construction, retractable landing gear, and an enclosed cockpit.

  9. List of surviving Vought F4U Corsairs - Wikipedia

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    This Vought F4U Corsair with registration FAH-609 Air Force of Honduras, shot down three aircraft: a Cavalier F-51D Mustang and two Goodyear FG-1D Corsairs of the Salvadoran Air Force 17 July 1969, commanding by Captain Fernando Soto Henriquez. This was the last combat between piston engined aircraft. [citation needed]

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