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Ensign J. C. West took off from USS Wake Island in a Ryan FR-1 Fireball, of VF-41, a combination prop-jet design, and soon experienced problems with the Wright R-1820-72W Cyclone radial engine. Before the reciprocating power plant failed completely, West started the General Electric I-16 jet engine and returned to the ship (making the first ...
[8] [9] Two hours into a planned eight-and-a-half-hour flight, at 1709 hrs., it makes its last contact by radio and has been missing since. [9] Despite a massive air and ground search at the time and repeated searches since 1950, as of 19 June 2011 no trace of the aircraft or its occupants has been found, nor has the cause of the aircraft's ...
The Willys MB and the Ford GPW, both formally called the U.S. Army truck, 1 ⁄ 4 ‑ton, 4×4, command reconnaissance, [9] [10] commonly known as the Willys Jeep, [nb 5] Jeep, or jeep, [12] and sometimes referred to by its Standard Army vehicle supply nr. G-503, [nb 6] were highly successful American off-road capable, light military utility ...
A USAF MATS Douglas C-124A Globemaster II, 51-5183, inbound to Enewetak Atoll, Pacific Ocean, carrying nuclear test device components (possibly for the EGG device fired during the Operation Redwing Mohawk test) crashed 421 feet (128 m) short of, and eight feet (2.4 m) below, the runway at Enewetak Island, shearing off its landing gear and ...
The ensuing madness was one of the wilder and weirder stories in NFL lore — part who done it, part high-paid legal drama, part science lesson, part Rorschach test, part character assassination ...
The well-known World War II M25 tank transporter (also known as Dragon Wagon) truck, commonly referred to as Pacific was not a product of Pacific Truck and Trailer but of Pacific Car and Foundry. Again, the well-known Pacific School Coach was a Kenworth model CT school bus, made from 1949 onwards; Kenworth itself being a subsidiary of Paccar ...
Ensign of Royal Canadian Navy since 2013. The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) is tasked to provide maritime security along the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic coasts of Canada, exercise Canada's sovereignty over the Arctic archipelago, and support Canada's multi-national and bilateral interests overseas.
All 15 of the passengers on board Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 4 were rescued alive, a day after the Douglas DC-3 airplane they had been on had crashed into Okanagan Mountain during a winter storm. Two of the three crew members were killed. The travelers had been on their way from Vancouver to Calgary for the Christmas holidays. [125] [126]