Showing posts with label Experimental aircraft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Experimental aircraft. Show all posts

Thursday, June 25, 2026

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, June 25, 1946. First Flight of the YB-35.

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, June 25, 1946. The World Bank commences ...: The World Bank commenced operations. Nationalist Chinese troops killed ten demonstrating middle school students at Xuzhou when their command...

Tuesday, June 25, 1946. The World Bank commences operations.

The World Bank commenced operations.

Nationalist Chinese troops killed ten demonstrating middle school students at Xuzhou when their commander, Feng Yu-xiang Fang Jingxing ordered them to be fired on by machine guns.

The US was struggling through a post war meat shortage.  Denver newspapers were reporting that the Office of Price Administration was accordingly being kept in operation and that Denver butcher shops were nearly bare.

The YB-35 flew for the first time.


Long considered a real oddball, the aircraft anticipated the B-2.

Last edition:

Saturday, June 22, 1946. History rhyming

Friday, March 22, 2024

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, March 22, 1944. Vesuvius destroys the 340th Bombardment Group and the XP56.

Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, March 22, 1944. German defeat in the B...


80% of the B-25s of the 340th Bombardment Group were destroyed by volcanic boulders from Vesuvius.

The only example of the Northrup XP-56, the first one having been destroyed in a crash, was photographed in anticipation of its first flight the following day.

Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet (s/n 42-38353) on the ground at Muroc Army Air Field, California, March 22, 1944.

The weird aircraft was not a success.

Last prior edition:

Tuesday, March 21, 1944. Dear John.

Thursday, November 17, 2011