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retro aviation, space & military

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US Soldiers of the 41st Armored Infantry Battalion and the 82nd Reconnaissance Battalion study a captured German map during Operation Cobra in Normandy, France, July 1944

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The Northrop XB-35 Flying Wing in the later stages of completion. It was powered by four Pratt and Whitney Wasp Major engines turn four 8-bladed propellers.

Date: April 29, 1946

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The gunner in a Fairey Battle captures a photograph of a German column in the immediate aftermath of a strafing run, 1940

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Happy Space Cutaway Saturday with this Shusei Nagaoka artwork.

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A classic Bruce Pennington work, used as a 1973 cover to ‘Children of Tomorrow,’ by A. E. van Vogt.

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Mustang.

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Convair B-58 Hustler. Science Service Science Program booklets and Revell model kits’ trading card illustration detail - 1961.

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Spitfire JG726 `AN-L' of 417 Squadron RCAF stripped for parts at Gabes after colliding with a Hudson during take-off on 19 April 1943.

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On April 30, 1939, New York City welcomed the world to Flushing Meadows Park for the futuristic New York World’s Fair. This souvenir booklet expresses some of the exposition’s ambition with illustrations of a rocket port within the Transportation Building, the Speed sculpture by Joseph E. Renier, and a luminous Westinghouse Electric Building designed by architects Skidmore and Owings. The booklet’s introduction is steadfast in its optimism:

Thus the fair becomes a prophecy. It sounds a bit out of place in these troubled times to speak of peace and progress when everything sounds of war and retrogression, but we firmly believe that the underlying truths which have been initiated by science and education are irresistible, and will not be stopped in their ever-increasing march toward “The World of Tomorrow.”  

Exposition Souvenir Corp. Views of the New York World’s Fair. 1939. New-York Historical Society.

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Looooooooove!