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Lonely Flight to Destiny by Craig Kodera
9 August 1945: Three days after an atomic bomb had been used against the Japanese industrial city of Hiroshima, a second attack was made on Nagasaki.
This painting depicts B-29 Superfortress "Bock's Car" carrying the second atomic bomb, nicknamed "Fat Boy", on its way to bomb the Japanese port city of Nagasaki.
The two atomic bombings hastened the end of World War 2 in the Pacific as Japan surrendered unconditionally five days after that on 14 August 194... Read More
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"Dawn, The World Forever Changed" by William S. Phillips
On this day, August 6, 76 years ago, the world entered the atomic age when the Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, dropped the world's first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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2021-02-13T07:41:43+00:00 ·
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Today in 1994: Lt. Jeannie Flynn completed training in an F-15 Eagle. She was the first woman selected for combat pilot training.
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2020-10-15T05:56:12+00:00 ·
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On this day, Oct 14th 1947.
“Chuck” Yeager became the first person to travel faster than the speed of sound when he flew the X-1 at Mach 1.07 from Edwards Air Force Base.
Art work by Roy Grinnell
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On this day December 17 in 1903, two brothers that owned a bicycle shop in Ohio -Orville and Wilbur Wright - changed the direction and history of mankind.
Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the brothers made the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft. Orville piloted the gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane, which stayed aloft for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet on its inaugural flight.
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21 September 1964: The first prototype North American Aviation XB-70A-1-NA Valkyrie, serial number 62-0001, flown by Chief Test Pilot Alvin S. White and Colonel Joseph F. Cotton, U.S. Air Force, made its first flight from Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, California, to Edwards Air Force Base.

Originally a prototype Mach 3 strategic bomber, 62-0001 (also known as AV-1) and it’s sister ship, XB-70A-2-NA, 62-0207, (AV-2), were built and used by the Air Force and NASA as high-speed research aircraf... Read More
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Atomic bombing of Hiroshima, 06 August 1945, 73 years ago today.
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbetts, took off from Tinian Airfield on the world's first atomic bombing mission in history, headed for the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
At 08:15 (Hiroshima time), Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy bomb on the unsuspecting city. The detonation created a blast equivalent to 16 kilotons of TNT.
Some 70,000–80,000 people, 30% of the city's population, were killed by t... Read More
At 08:15 (Hiroshima time), Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy bomb on the unsuspecting city. The detonation created a blast equivalent to 16 kilotons of TNT.
Some 70,000–80,000 people, 30% of the city's population, were killed by the blast and resultant firestorm, and another 70,000 injured. Out of those killed, 20,000 were soldiers.'/>
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