Back in 1997, on a sliver of land wedged between a gas station and a car park, a lone C130 Hercules could be found. It was mounted there near the entrance to the National Security Agency at Fort Mead in Maryland for a good reason. Not the original aircraft, as that crashed on foreign soil, it had been painted with the tail number 60528 to represent it.
The memorial to the crew of 60528
The C130 airborne
The plot of 60528 and the track of the intercepting fighters.
A Mig 17
Gun camera film from the attacking Mig17s
Gun camera film from an attacking Mig 17 showing the C130 in flames
The crash site of 60528
A USN Neptune
A Mig15
An LA11
An RAF Lincoln
The U2 spy plane
Gary Powers
The memorial to the crew of the C130
Arlington Cemetery
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Intro/outro Music, Coffee Fund theme music by Geoff Smith thegeoffsmith.com
Dr. Steph’s intro music by Nevil Bounds
Capt Nick’s intro music by Kevin from Norway (aka Kevski)
Doh De Oh by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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If you are anything like the usual aviation enthusiast you’ll have a list of famous names in your head that you can quote at parties to bore your friends like, Wilbur and Orville, Bleriot, Richthofen, Lindbergh, Sikorsky, Whittle, Yeager and such but I wonder if you can place some of the others who deserve recognition.
Charlie Taylor
Hans Von Ohain
Ohain’s HeS8 jet engine
The He178
The He280
Gloster E-28
Olive-Ann and TravelAir
The Staggerwing
Doolittle and the Mystery Ship
Louise Thaden
Bessie Coleman
Mae Jemison
Houdini
Colin Defries
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Intro/outro Music, Coffee Fund theme music by Geoff Smith thegeoffsmith.com
Dr. Steph’s intro music by Nevil Bounds
Capt Nick’s intro music by Kevin from Norway (aka Kevski)
Doh De Oh by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Artist: https://incompetech.com/
He is dead now but you’ll find no stone to mark his grave since he has neither grave nor marker, which is a little odd for a much decorated American hero who fought for his country with outstanding bravery… but it was his wish and his family accepted that.
Boeing B-17D
The 509th
Project Alberta
The Trinity Test tower
The world’s first atomic bomb just prior to the Trinity Test
The Trinity Test fireball
Little Boy
The mission map
Detonation
Hiroshima just after detonation
The Hiroshima Damage estimation map
Enola Gay returns
Tibbits in Enola Gay
Tibbits is decorated by Gen Spaatz
Enola Gay in the Udvar Hazy
Paul W Tibbits
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