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The Boeing XB-15 was a massive experimental bomber that first flew on October 15, 1937. With a 149-foot wingspan—nearly 50% larger than the B-17—it was the biggest U.S. plane built up to then, powered by four 1,000 hp Pratt & Whitney radials, featured crew bunks, internal wing crawlways, and...

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Go BIG or go home. The Beardmore Inflexible, aka Rohrbach Ro VI, was the world's largest aircraft in 1928 with a 157-ft wingspan—16 ft wider than the WWII B-29 Superfortress. This all-metal prototype used advanced stressed-skin construction, powered by three 500-hp Rolls-Royce engines. Built in Scotland, it first flew March 5, 1928, but was underpowered, saw no production, and was scrapped in 1930.👀
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Go BIG or go home. The Beardmore Inflexible, aka Rohrbach Ro VI, was the world's largest aircraft in 1928 with a 157-ft wingspan—16 ft wider than the WWII B-29 Superfortress. This all-metal prototype used advanced stressed-skin construction, powered by three 500-hp Rolls-Royce engines. Built in Scotland, it first flew March 5, 1928, but was underpowered, saw no production, and was scrapped in 1930.👀

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The Antonov An-22 is the world's largest turboprop aircraft and first flew on February 27 1965. It boasts a 211-foot wingspan, can haul up to 176,370 lb of cargo, and is powered by four massive 15,000-hp Kuznetsov turboprops with a max takeoff weight of 551,000 lb.
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America’s swing-wing bomber left Palmdale for the first time on October 18, 1984. Company pilot M.L. Evenson and Air Force Lt. Col. L.B. Schroeder flew the first production B-1B for 3 hours and 20 minutes and landed it at Edwards AFB. It was the first of 100 Lancers built after the canceled B-1A program was revived. The jet stretched 146 feet, used wings that measured 137 feet fully spread and 79 feet swept, and had a max takeoff weight of 477,000 pounds. Four General Electric F101 engines each put out more than 30,000 pounds of thrust with afterburner.🫡
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I like big 1920's planes and I can not lie. The Massive Blackburn T.4 Cubaroo was a 1924 British prototype torpedo bomber, among the largest single-engine aircraft ever built. With an 88 ft wingspan and powered by a 1,000 hp Napier Cub engine, it could carry a 21-inch torpedo over 800 miles. Only two prototypes flew; none entered service.
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The original B-52 prototypes featured a fighter-style tandem cockpit and a history of design reversals that completely look different from the production models flying today. The XB-52 and YB-52 were the two original prototypes built by Boeing that launched the B-52 Stratofortress program, serving as the critical testbeds for America’s long-standing strategic bomber fleet. Though the XB-52 (49-230) was built first as the primary experimental airframe, a major pneumatic system explosion during ground testing in November 1951 severely damaged its wing trailing edge and delayed its deployment. As a result, the pre-production YB-52 (49-231) made the program's maiden flight on April 15, 1952, under the command of test pilot Tex Johnston, while the repaired XB-52 did not take flight until October 2, 1952. Both aircraft featured a distinct tandem cockpit canopy that sat the pilot and co-pilot in a single-file line. This arrangement was ultimately discarded for a side-by-side seating configuration on all subsequent production models at the request of Strategic Air Command chief General Curtis LeMay to improve crew coordination. Equipped with eight Pratt & Whitney YJ57-P-3 turbojet engines and dummy tail-gun fairings, both aircraft spent their lifespans in military flight-test programs until they were ultimately dismantled and scrapped in the mid-1960s.
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The Yankee Clipper was one of Pan Am’s Boeing 314 flying boats, a 152-foot wingspan giant that opened regular transatlantic air service in 1939. The prototype first flew with a single vertical fin on its metal-skinned horizontal stabilizer and suffered serious directional instability. Engineers switched it to twin fins at the ends of the horizontal stabilizer, then restored a center fin as well, creating the three-fin arrangement that went into production on every 314 including the Yankee Clipper. That production tail gave the big flying boat the control authority it needed for ocean crossings while the same horizontal stabilizer carried the large elevators fitted with separate control and trim tabs. The Yankee Clipper itself carried the first scheduled transatlantic airmail on May 20, 1939, and later flew passengers until it was lost in a landing accident in 1943. 🫡
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I played World of Warcraft for many, many years (stopped around early Cata days). The one thing that stood out to me more than anything was its massive size. It was literally a world. And it felt huge because you had to explore everything by foot (to start with anyway). This might be a hot take but I always felt that some of the magic got lost with the flying mounts and teleports later on. The upgrade from walking to getting your first mount was nice (it felt like a real milestone) but the flying mount and teleports turned a once massive world into a set of waypoints. I know it's all under the umbrella of convenience but I felt that the world really started to shrink and lost a big chunk of its charm. It wasn't about exploring anymore, it was about getting to the next dungeon or raid as fast as possible, relegating everything else to secondary importance, including all the little details, NPCs, caves, coastlines, mountains, and everything that that was once so wonderful to explore.
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I played World of Warcraft for many, many years (stopped around early Cata days). The one thing that stood out to me more than anything was its massive size. It was literally a world. And it felt huge because you had to explore everything by foot (to start with anyway). This might be a hot take but I always felt that some of the magic got lost with the flying mounts and teleports later on. The upgrade from walking to getting your first mount was nice (it felt like a real milestone) but the flying mount and teleports turned a once massive world into a set of waypoints. I know it's all under the umbrella of convenience but I felt that the world really started to shrink and lost a big chunk of its charm. It wasn't about exploring anymore, it was about getting to the next dungeon or raid as fast as possible, relegating everything else to secondary importance, including all the little details, NPCs, caves, coastlines, mountains, and everything that that was once so wonderful to explore.

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The Wizard of Oz premiered in Hollywood at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on this day, August 15, 1939. Video | Judy Garland as Dorothy singing “Over the Rainbow”. It was composed by Harold Arlen with lyrics by E. Y. “Yip” Harburg. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and ranked first in the AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs and the Recording Industry Association of America's “365 Songs of the Century”. ► “Over the Rainbow” was nearly cut from the film; MGM felt that it made the Kansas sequence too long, as well as being too far over the heads of the children for whom it was intended. The studio also thought that it was degrading for Judy Garland to sing in a barnyard. A reprise of the song was cut: Dorothy sang it to remember Kansas while imprisoned in the Witch's castle. Garland began to cry, along with the crew, because the song was so sad.
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The Wizard of Oz premiered in Hollywood at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on this day, August 15, 1939. Video | Judy Garland as Dorothy singing “Over the Rainbow”. It was composed by Harold Arlen with lyrics by E. Y. “Yip” Harburg. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and ranked first in the AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs and the Recording Industry Association of America's “365 Songs of the Century”. ► “Over the Rainbow” was nearly cut from the film; MGM felt that it made the Kansas sequence too long, as well as being too far over the heads of the children for whom it was intended. The studio also thought that it was degrading for Judy Garland to sing in a barnyard. A reprise of the song was cut: Dorothy sang it to remember Kansas while imprisoned in the Witch's castle. Garland began to cry, along with the crew, because the song was so sad.

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The Incident in 1943 over Bremen, Germany, 21-year-old American B-17 bomber pilot Lt. Charles "Charlie" Brown, commanding the heavily damaged B-17 Ye Olde Pub, was returning from a mission when his plane was riddled with flak and fighter attacks. Most of his crew were wounded or killed, engines were failing, and the bomber was barely flyable—smoke pouring from it. Approaching to finish off the crippled B-17, was 28-year-old German Luftwaffe ace Lt. Franz Stigler, flying a Messerschmitt Bf 109 (with 22 confirmed kills by then). Seeing the dire state of the American crew through the bomber's open wounds, Stigler couldn't bring himself to fire. Instead, he flew alongside Ye Olde Pub in formation, saluted Brown through the canopy, and gestured for him to follow. He then escorted the crippled B-17 out of German airspace toward neutral Sweden, waving goodbye once they were safe from pursuit. Stigler later said, "To shoot you down would have been dishonorable," risking his own life and court-martial.
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The Incident in 1943 over Bremen, Germany, 21-year-old American B-17 bomber pilot Lt. Charles "Charlie" Brown, commanding the heavily damaged B-17 Ye Olde Pub, was returning from a mission when his plane was riddled with flak and fighter attacks. Most of his crew were wounded or killed, engines were failing, and the bomber was barely flyable—smoke pouring from it. Approaching to finish off the crippled B-17, was 28-year-old German Luftwaffe ace Lt. Franz Stigler, flying a Messerschmitt Bf 109 (with 22 confirmed kills by then). Seeing the dire state of the American crew through the bomber's open wounds, Stigler couldn't bring himself to fire. Instead, he flew alongside Ye Olde Pub in formation, saluted Brown through the canopy, and gestured for him to follow. He then escorted the crippled B-17 out of German airspace toward neutral Sweden, waving goodbye once they were safe from pursuit. Stigler later said, "To shoot you down would have been dishonorable," risking his own life and court-martial.

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