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Every once in a while, the U.S. Air Force lets out their inner petrolhead. During the tail end of World War II and the Cold War especially, taking an exi...

On January 9, 1943, at the controls of the United States Army Air Forces, Boeing’s Chief Test Pilot, Eddie Allen, made the first flight of the Lockheed L-049 Constellation prototype, NX25600, from Lockheed Air Terminal at Burbank, California

Few aircraft have as great a mark on history. Heres What You Need to Know: Stalin instructed the Tupolev design bureau to abandon its own design program and instead make an exact copy of the B-29. Few aircraft have as great a mark on history as the B-29, the pencil-shaped American four-engine bomber that dropped the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What’s less well known is that the Soviet Union had its own B-29—as in,  literally the same airplane, in all but a few respects. And...

America’s Massive B-29 Bomber Once Fought for Russia The United States’ most expensive weapons program during World War II was the development of the ultimate strategic bomber, the B-29 Superfortress. Heres What You Need to Remember: Ultimately, the B-29 proved an adaptable platform in both American  and Soviet service. The Soviet experience also proved, yet again, that few technological gaps are so great that they can’t be bridged by a little reverse engineering among friends. Few a...