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This Sonar Splotch Could Be Amelia Earhart’s Lost Plane
Amelia Earhart was declared dead in January of 1939, two years after her around-the-world flight in her Lockheed Electra 10E Special ended in an unsolved disappearance. Earhart was the world’s most accomplished and famed female pilot in 1937, and her ill-fated flight is still the kind of thing that haunts a person. Real-estate investor and…
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Watch This In-Depth Tour of the SR-71 Blackbird’s Jet Engine
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is widely known as the fastest plane to ever take to the sky. It set a ground speed record of 3,529 km/h all the way back in July of 1976. That may not even be its true top speed: Another Blackbird pilot claimed to hit Mach 3.5 (or nearly 4,345 km/h)…
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This Vintage Streamlined Scooter Was Years Ahead Of Its Time
Scooting across the pages of Bring A Trailer in its final auction hours is a special tiny two-wheeler. This 1947 Salsbury Model 85 didn’t just look like the streamlined scooter of your dreams, but it was years ahead of its competitors with technology, too.
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The Nazis Kept A List Of Powerful American Friends In Los Angeles, Including The Co-Founder Of UCLA
In 1945, the FBI raided a warehouse in Los Angeles that was used for storage by the German Consulate. Among the files, they found a collection of 7x12cm cards kept by the Nazi regime containing contact information for important people in LA. The cards included the names, addresses and phone numbers of people in the…