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In 1932, Louis Belario, the famous French aviator who bravely flew the English Channel solo, envisioned an airline where crowds of exhausted travelers would fill his lavishly appointed aircraft on the Venice to London route. Prior to his Simplon B-12, "Parisian Pullman", weary travelers were often packed into so-called cattle cars. Flown by recruits from the Condor Legion, the Jet Assisted Take-Off (J.A.T.O.) was a relatively easy matter. Landing was another story altogether, with the plane occasionally derailing, gouging a mile long trough in the concrete runway. New British jet service, luggage delays, and overdue bills from transporting Vichy troops during W.W.II cost Belario his airline. In 1951 a despondent Louis leaped to his death from the Observatory of the Eiffel Tower. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Martin-Boing 316 Boomerang (nicknamed Jumbo Dumbo)
was considered the pinnacle of air transportation in the thirties.
The hull, built in San Diego, was towed to Seattle for fitting of the giant wing. The tail section, housed a lavish cocktail lounge, while the ship's Captain entertained special guests in the observatory atop the wing. The "Princess of the Seas" flew her maiden voyage June 3rd, 1938 from Seattle to San Francisco. In 1941, while moored in Trinidad, the Princess was accidentally
destroyed when set ablaze by a cigarette left carelessly in the lounge.
Firefighters from the other side of the island were unable to reach the
craft quickly enough.
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Originally built in 1862 at
the Gosport Navy Shipyard, the CSS "Merry Mac", pride of the Confederate
fleet, found herself undergoing complete refitting in 1910.
Orville Wright was secretly commissioned by Secretary of War Jacob M. Dickinson
to supervise the complete redesign and construction of what was to become
the world's first "air ship".
Purchased in 1912 by Karnival Gaming Lines, the newly christened "Queen" found herself ferrying socialites back from Mardi Gras. With early morning fog blinding the captain, her port wing tip struck the Crescent City Bridge and she sank in the muddy Mississippi below. The tragedy went mostly unnoticed in the world press due to the concurrent sinking of the Titanic. |
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This magnificent aircraft, the Heinkel V-3 "Ural"
superbomber had a curious beginning and almost never got off the ground,
due to the Nazi's rapidly advancing jet technology. The "Pride
of the Luftwaffe" was orginally intended for trans-Atlantic bombing
of the United States.
Of the 22 Urals built, the last remaining craft was found intact and out of fuel on a remote jungle airstrip in Uruguay. Scrapped in January 1947, it was able to provide 45 post war jobs for workers at the new Mercedes Benz factory in Sao Paulo, Brazil. |
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First revealed in the 1939 Mayday parade airshow over
Moscow, this eight engine behemoth had its own snow plow for clearing
runways during brutal Russian winters.
Although it never became fully airborne, it later provided yeoman duty for road contruction crews building 25 miles of the Siberian Expressway. On an ill-fated second attempt at flight, it met its demise when it veered from the runway and crashed violently into a vodka distillery in Kursk. The flames could be seen over the horizon for hundreds of miles. |
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More than half a century after World War II, the
vintage aircraft which had performed valiantly in combat missions in both
theaters, returning their crews safely, were unceremoniously abandoned
to fields and deserts throughout the United States.
The dwindling number of veteran pilots and crew are witnessing a resurgence of pride in the history of this brave chapter in American aviation history. This painting honors the memory of the gallant airmen who fought so bravely. Their timeless sacrifice will never be forgotten. |
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Although the French developed gyrocopters initally,
British ingenuity remained unmatched when it came to mixing comfort and
function, thus creating the world's first airbus, the Picadilly.
Winston Churchill's "Speech That Never Was", delivered from the tarmac at Buckingham Palace in the early war years, was meant to rally a struggling country against the German Blitz. Unfortunately, the radio speech could not be heard on the BBC due to the thunderous roar of the massive Rolls Royce Merlin engines. |
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During the Great Depression, dairy farmers were rushing to get their products to market before their competitors did. One enterprising dairy commissioned their own uniquely designed air craft, which later became known as the P 47 Thunderbolt, known as "The Jug".during World War II. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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