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Photo Date: On 22 June 1987
Credit: Phillip Dawe
Date Uploaded: 8 June 2020
Airframe: Goodyear ZPG-2, s/n 141561 USN
Notes: 141561 - Goodyear ZPG-2 (Gondola only) - NAS Lakehurst
Control car in open storage at Lakehurst.
On Monday, March 4, 1957, Snow Bird, a ZPG-2 airship (an N-class blimp, sn 141561) took off from NAS South Weymouth (near Boston, Massachusetts) under the command of Commander Jack R. Hunt, along with Commander Ronald W. Hoel and Lieutenant Commander Robert S. Bowser as copilots.
At that time, the record for an unrefueled, continuous flight was 200 hours and 26 minutes. The distance record was held by the LZ-127, Graf Zeppelin, which had flown 11,233 km (6,980 mi) from Friedrichshafen to NAS Kasumigaura in Tokyo in 101 hours and 49 minutes during its round-the-world flight in August of 1929.
On March 15, 1957, after having flown 15,205 km (9,448 mi) in 264.2 hours (just over 10 days), the Snow Bird landed at Naval Air Station Key West, Florida. The flight had crossed the Atlantic, flown over the western shores of Africa and Europe and then crossed the Atlantic from
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Photo Date: On 20 May 1981
Credit: Phillip Dawe
Date Uploaded: 8 June 2020
Airframe: Grumman RV-1 Mohawk, s/n 64-14243 US, c/n 71B, c/r N243KM
Notes: Captain Thomas S Casagrande, US Army, and passenger, Phillip Dawe - Ready for a flight in a RV-1D Mohawk at Ocean County airport, NJ,
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Photo Date: On 20 May 1981
Credit: Phillip Dawe
Date Uploaded: 8 June 2020
Airframe: Grumman RV-1 Mohawk, s/n 64-14243 US, c/n 71B, c/r N243KM
Notes: 64-14243 - Grumman RV-1D Mohawk - Ocean County Airport, NJ - Was used by the US Environmental Protection Agency and contracted to US Geological Survey to survey the route of the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline and to study pack ice. Transferred to the US Navy Test Pilot School, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, c. 1974
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Photo Date: On 17 March 1981
Credit: Phillip Dawe
Date Uploaded: 8 June 2020
Airframe: Grumman RV-1D Mohawk, s/n 64-14263 US, c/n 91B
Notes: 64-14263 - Grumman RV-1D Mohawk - NAS Lakehurst
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Photo Date: On 17 March 1981
Credit: Phillip Dawe
Date Uploaded: 8 June 2020
Airframe: Beech RU-21G Ute, s/n 70-15906 US, c/n LM-140, c/r N906HF
Notes: 70-15906 - Beechraft U-21G Ute
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Photo Date: On 4 May 1976
Credit: Phillip Dawe
Date Uploaded: 8 June 2020
Airframe: English Electric Canberra B.2, s/n WE113 RAF
Notes: WE113/H - English Electric Canberra B.2 - 100 Squadron - RAF Marham
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Photo Date: On 4 May 1976
Credit: Phillip Dawe
Date Uploaded: 8 June 2020
Airframe: Handley Page Victor K.2, s/n XL160 RAF, c/n HP80/63
Notes: XL160 - Handley Page Victor K.2 - 55 Squadron - RAF Marham - Initially delivered in January 1961 as a B.2. Converted to a K.2 between October1968 and May 1970.Withdrawn from use in 1986 and used for battle damage repair tests at Marham until 1984
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Photo Date: On 4 May 1976
Credit: Phillip Dawe
Date Uploaded: 8 June 2020
Airframe: Handley Page Victor K.2, s/n XL191 RAF
Notes: XL191 - Handley Page Victor K.2 - 231 Operational Conversion Unit - RAF Marham - Delivered as a B.2 in late June 1962. Converted to a K.2 tanker in 1970.
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Photo Date: On 4 May 1976
Credit: Phillip Dawe
Date Uploaded: 8 June 2020
Airframe: English Electric Canberra B.2, s/n WK162 RAF
Notes: WK162/A - English Electric Canberra B.2 - 100 Squadron - RAF Marham - Wearing high visibility day-glo panels to aid interception for trainee fighter pilots.
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Photo Date: On 4 May 1976
Credit: Phillip Dawe
Date Uploaded: 8 June 2020
Airframe: Lockheed NC-130A Hercules, s/n 55-0022 USAF, c/n 3049
Notes: 55-0022 - Lockheed NC-130A Hercules - 4900th Test Group, Aeronautical Systems Division - 4 May 1976
A rare A-model Hercules pictured at MIldenhall during one of its visits to the UK as part of Project OPAQUE (Optical Atmospheric Quantities in Europe) to measure atmospheric optical and IR properties in Europe.
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