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From the Collection: “FURSTE” Flight Boots

In the early decades of the cold war, western Europe faced the very real possibility of a Soviet ground attack so immense it would quickly overwhelm all opposition. The United States and its NATO allies, understanding they could never match the Warsaw Pact’s ground forces, placed their faith in airpower. Aviation, in the form advanced fighters and fighter-bombers […]

P-51D Mustang (Replica)

Designed by North American Aviation the legendary P-51 Mustang was a single-seat, low-wing, single-engine aircraft, widely considered to be the best all-around fighter of the Second World War. The Mustangs unusual history began in 1940 when the British government approached North American Aviation with a proposal for license-built Curtis P-40 Warhawks. Instead, North American offered […]

AGM-86 Air Launched Cruise Missiles

Key to the United States nuclear deterrence in the post-World War Two era the Triad concept depended on three strong legs. Land-based Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles, sea-based Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles, and land-based bombers. By the late 1970’s the increasing non-survivability of conventional aircraft significantly weakened the effectiveness of the bomber force. The search for practical […]

U-3A Blue Canoe (C-310)

By the late 1950’s the United States Air Force’s post Korean War search for an inexpensive light utility aircraft concluded with the selection of Cessna Corporation’s C-310. The small, five person, twin-engine, low-wing transport was an off-the-shelf civilian design intended for corporate use. Impressed by its versatility, the USAF purchased 160 Cessna C-310A aircraft in […]

B-8M Gyrocopter

The Benson B-8M gyrocopter is motorized version of the Benson B-7, a small single-seat gyro-glider developed in the mid-1950s by aviation pioneer Igor Benson. A Russian immigrant to the United States, Benson designed the B-8M as a light, safe rotary-wing aircraft for private use. Little more than a rotor, seat, tailfin and motor the B-8M’s […]

B-8M Gyrocopter

The Benson B-8M gyrocopter is motorized version of the Benson B-7, a small single-seat gyro-glider developed in the mid-1950s by aviation pioneer Igor Benson. A Russian immigrant to the United States, Benson designed the B-8M as a light, safe rotary-wing aircraft for private use. Little more than a rotor, seat, tailfin and motor the B-8M’s […]

Hispano HA-200 Saeta

Hispano HA-200 Saeta Created in the mid-1950’s by a Spanish aviation engineering team led by German expatriate designer Willy Messerschmitt, the Hispano HA-200 Saeta is a tandem seat, all metal, low-wing monoplane powered by twin Turbomeca Marboré II F3 turbojet engines.  Conceived as a jet familiarization trainer, the aircraft proved to be a capable design with a somewhat problematic […]

Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon

During the Second World War the popular Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar underwent several modifications to make it suitable for a number of combat roles. First entering service with the British Royal Air Force in 1942 as the Hudson, the modern all-metal, twin-engine medium bomber proved vulnerable during daylight bombing raids over occupied Europe. The aircraft […]

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