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The Thunderbirds switched back to front-line jet fighters after the accident. The Air Force team, like the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels, had switched to smaller aircraft after the 1973 oil crisis (the Navy switched from F-4 Phantoms to smaller A-4 Skyhawks). The first F-16A Fighting Falcon in Thunderbird colors arrived at Nellis AFB, Nevada, on 22 ...
Thunderbird was a high mission-tally Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress of the 303rd Bombardment Group during World War II.The original plane, serial number 42-38050, was scrapped at the end of the war and no longer exists.
The F-16 has been the demonstration aircraft for the Thunderbirds since the 1983 season. [6] In January 1982, four members of the squadron were killed in what became known as the "Diamond Crash" of T-38 Talon aircraft which the squadron had flown since 1974.
Tarrant Tabor F1765 after its crash in 1919. ... Aviation accidents in Japan involving U.S. military and government aircraft post-World War II
The crash of a Grumman S-2 Tracker moments after take-off from Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, kills all four U.S. Navy crew on board. A military spokesman said that the twin-engined anti-submarine warfare plane crashed and burned "after climbing to some 100-feet. Wreckage was spread over a wide area about one mile south of the base."
The plane, the first aircraft built in a newly independent Poland, was a copy of a Hannover CL.II and crashed due to faulty cabling. [ 352 ] August 15 – Baltimore , Maryland – While performing aerial stunts at Patterson Park a military aircraft crash landed through a fence and into a baseball diamond killing three children and injuring a ...
The USAF Thunderbirds suffered their first fatal crash at an air show during Transpo 72 at Dulles International Airport. Major Joe Howard flying Thunderbird 3, McDonnell Douglas F-4E-32-MC Phantom II , 66-0321 , experienced a loss of power during a vertical manoeuver, and broke out of the formation just after it completed a wedge roll and was ...
After World War II, the USAAF classified the aircraft as surplus stock and retired it. In January 1946, Delta Air Lines took over the aircraft, had it converted to the civilian version DC-3C, and re-registered the aircraft with the aircraft registration NC49657 and the name Survey. The twin-engine medium-range aircraft was powered by two Pratt ...