giving the public a rare close look at one of aviation's most distinctive and beloved combat aircraft
The Budd Big Dome — officially the "Hi-Level Dome" in Santa Fe parlance — was built by the Budd Company in 1954 as the centerpiece of the Santa Fe's re-equipped Super Chief and El Capitan consists
served cold to Japanese night raiders who thought they owned the skies after sunset
the H-19 featured a distinctive nose-mounted piston engine — in this case a Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp radial — which freed the fuselage for an unobstructed cabin capable of carrying up to ten passengers or equivalent cargo
The OE-1 was the Marine Corps' designation for the Bird Dog
Boeing (Vega) B-17G 44-85774 giving the public a rareThese are 1 72 scale decals for Boeing (Vega) B 17G 44 85774, serving postwar with the 4136th Base Unit, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, United States Air Force. By the late 1940s, surviving B 17Gs had transitioned from frontline combat bombers to a variety of support, training, and administrative roles under the newly independent USAF. Tinker Field now Tinker Air Force Base was a major Air Materiel Command depot, and B 17s assigned to base units there