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At 4 a.m. one morning last November at Boeing’s Seattle plant a huge tarpaulin-covered shape was rolled out to the test areas under armed guard. The shape under the canvas was that of the Air Force’s newest and world’s biggest jet bomber, the XB-52, a 350,000-pound plane built on lines of a jet fighter. InContinue reading “Military Aviation from WWI to Present – February 4, 1952 Life magazine”

Earlier this year, Apollo 14 had Alan Shepard and his version of a golf club. This July, Apollo 15 will have its own version of a golf cart. Folded, squeezed and packed into a storage compartment in the lunar module’s descent stage will be a four-wheeled battery-driven moon car called the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV).Continue reading “Apollo 15 Moon Rover – June 11, 1971 Life magazine”

Scattered about the U.S. are some 1,100 houses which long before the housing shortage were receiving the longing stares of almost everyone who passed them by. They were designed by Royal Barry Wills, a Boston architect whose products seem to be an almost perfect fulfillment of the sentimen. tal American ideal of what a homeContinue reading “American House Designer – August 26, 1946 Life Magazine”

You have to look twice at the airplane pictured above to see that it is flying without a propeller. Its motive force is the thrust of two invisible streams of hot combustion gases, jetted at high velocity from its engines. This plane is the Army Air Forces’ P-59, the first U.S. plane to be flownContinue reading “Jet Propulsion – November 27, 1944 Life Magazine”

You have to look twice at the airplane pictured above to see that it is flying without a propeller. Its motive force is the thrust of two invisible streams of hot combustion gases, jetted at high velocity from its engines. This plane is the Army Air Forces’ P-59, the first U.S. plane to be flownContinue reading “Jet Propulsion Launches a New Era in Man’s Locomotion”

Remember When Booklet from 1987. The perfect way to share your memories with those you love. 24 full-color pages of fascinating facts and authentic advertisements are sure to trigger many emotions as you reminisce about your special year. this Remember When Booklet is the perfect way to share your memories with those you love. 24 full-color pagesContinue reading “Life Magazine Remember When Booklet | 1987 Online”

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