B-25 Mitchell / "Air Apaches"B 25 Air Apaches airplane model. The 345th Medium Bombardment Group, "The Air Apaches" were widely known in the Southwest Pacific theatre. Their brightly painted Falcon (498th Sqdn), Bat (499th Sqdn), Bat (500th Sqdn) and Panther (501st Sqdn) Mitchell B 25J twin engine bombers flew at low level, often at tree top height. Converted to gun nosed B 25's, with up to 12 forward firing fifty caliber machine guns they were well respected and feared by the

while large endplate fins and additional small fins enhance stability

The A-7 Corsair II was designed as a lightweight attack aircraft to supplement and later replace the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk

and the second aircraft arrived at Andrews AFB

and many people with only casual interest in aircraft

The Gilmore Oil Company sponsored Rosco Turner in the 1932 Air Race where he placed third

The Cessna 180 started life as a more powerful development of the 170 and evolved into a family of useful utility aircraft that was in production for over three decades

NASA Space Shuttle takes off from Earth as a rocket and maneuvers in orbit as a spacecraft

In 1938 the Ilyushin design bureau began work on a heavily armored low-level attack aircraft

In February 1949 an American WAC Corporal second stage rocket carried atop a modified V-2 booster sent a payload 250 miles into the vacuum of space on a short suborbital flight

the TBD featured hydraulic folding wings

This airplane

following an inexplicable engine failure in Colorado