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F-4 Phantom II: NASA’s Versatile Sky Laboratory for Aerodynamics and Sonic Booms

NASA’s Flight Research Center used variants of the McDonnell F-4 Phantom II from 1965 to the mid-1980s for a range of research, including biomedical monitoring flights with instrumented pilots (and monkeys), sonic-boom experiments near Ely, Nevada, and later spanwise blowing studies on the F-4C to probe boundary-layer control and lift, illustrating the aircraft’s versatility before returning to the U.S. Air Force.

20 days ago•Source: Vintage Aviation News

"New Discovery: Possible Location of Amelia Earhart's Lost Plane Revealed"

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"New Discovery: Possible Location of Amelia Earhart's Lost Plane Revealed"

Former US air force pilot Tony Romeo claims to have possibly located the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane at the bottom of the Pacific using sonar images, reigniting the mystery surrounding her disappearance in 1937. His images, posted on Instagram, show a blurry mass that could resemble a plane, and he plans to obtain better images. This discovery would be a significant breakthrough in the search for Earhart's plane, but it follows previous attempts, including the forensic analysis of bones and other expeditions, to solve the enduring mystery.

via The Guardian US

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