The 'ghost bomber' that crashed in the Mon
Almost 70 years later, we still don't know quite what happened to the B-25 twin-engine Mitchell bomber that crashed near Pittsburgh.
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The XF-90 Fighter Became a Legend. How? By Surviving Nuclear War.
Three atomic blasts is nothing to sneeze at.
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Rugged: The Air Force Tested Its XF-90 Jet Against a Nuclear Explosion
Rugged: The Air Force Tested Its XF-90 Jet Against a Nuclear Explosion During the early days of the Cold War, it was assumed that nuclear weapons might well be used in the next war. Key point: If you assume nuclear weapons will be used, you would want to be sure your planes and tanks can survive to keep fighting. Here is how the XF-90 was nuked to find out. In 1945, the U.S. Army Air Force issued a requirement for a “penetrating escort” jet that could accompany comparatively ponderous B-29 and B-50 strategic bombers all the way to targets over the Soviet Union. It wanted that jet to be c...
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