The Berlin airlift begins.
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26 June 1948 – Berlin airlift begins
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Grunau Baby IIb
Grunau Baby IIb (c/n 41, OE-0448), single-seat sailplane, static exhibition at open doors event in Aeroklub Jaroměř, May 2015. Grunau Baby sailplane was created during the winter of 1930/31 by Edmund Schneider, German aircraft designer […]
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26 May 1941 – Sink the Bismarck!
On 26th May 1941, Fairey Swordfish aircraft launched from HMS Ark Royal aircraft carrier hit German battleship Bismarck with two torpedoes, damaging her stern and making the ship unmanoeuvrable. The story of pursuit of one […]
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Junkers Ju 52/3mte (CASA 325L)
Junkers Ju 52/3mte ´Rudolf von Thüna´ replica, exhibited in the Munich Airport Visitor Park, made by re-painting the CASA 352L aircraft, a Spanish version of Ju 52, manufactured between 1945 and 1952. The CASA 352L […]