Aircraft Briefs-Aircraft Development and Service in Brief

BRIEFS

Quick photo introductions related to specific aircraft
from the lens and collection of Tom Hildreth.

Click each photo below for related short photo-story


Fifty years ago in aviation:
First Flight of the Boeing B-52H
Stratofortress,6 March, 1961.
A look at the U.S. Air Force's LTV
A-7D Corsair II Service Introduction.
The 76th FIS at
Westover AFB, MA., 1961-1963.

North American
GAM-77/AGM-28 Hound Dog missile.
The MATS Connie visits Westover ARB,
her home base of long ago.
Fifty years ago in aviation:
Cessna Model 336 Skymaster first flight.

Fifty years ago in aviation:
The Northrop SM62 Snark Intercontinental
Missile (ICM) attains operational status.
The USAF Northrop T-38 Talon
supersonic trainer.
The stretched McDonnell-Douglas DC-8
The Super 61 Series.

Jet-airlift matures: The USAF
Lockheed C-141 Starlifter Transport.
Sixty-five years ago in aviation:
TWA's Transatlantic service introduction of
the Lockheed L-079 Constellation.
Twenty-five years ago in aviation:
Precision Airlines becomes part of
Eastern Express, 1 May 1986.

Forty-five years ago in aviation:
The Douglas TA-4F Skyhawk Attack Trainer
enters operational service.
Twenty years ago in aviation:
First flight of the Pilatus PC12.
Fifty years ago in aviation: First Flight of the
Lockheed P-3A Orion Patrol Aircraft.

Fifty years ago in aviation:
Service introduction of the
North American A-5 Vigilante.
Fifty years ago in aviation: Service introduction
of the North American T-39A Sabreliner.
Thirty years ago in aviation:
First flight of the
CASA C.212 Aviocar.

Forty-five years ago in aviation:
First flight of the Beech 99 Airliner.
Thirty-five years ago in aviation:
Command Airways Introduction of the
Shorts SD-330.
Fifty years ago in aviation:
Introduction of the Douglas A-4E Skyhawk
12 July 1961.

Forty years ago in aviation: Delivery of
the first McDonnell Douglas DC-10.
Forty-five years ago in aviation: First flight
of the Douglas DC-9-30.
Fifty years ago in aviation: First flight
of the Bell UH-1DIroquois.

On 5 April 1965 Douglas announced the development
of the DC-8 Super 60 Series.
Thirty Years Ago Today-The Demise of Air New England.
Closeup Study of a Raytheon Whale.

Tweets and Dragons-The Cessna T-37 and A37 Aircraft.
The Grummam F-14 Tomcat.
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