Over two decades after it was last deflated, detached from its gondola, and crated up at Lakehurst, the gas bag of an N-class ZPG-2W blimp was broken out and dusted off for what might have been the ...
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The flying banana that carried America into Vietnam
In the 1950s, aviation engineer Frank Piasecki challenged conventional helicopter design by developing a tandem-rotor aircraft with a long, curved fuselage that earned it the nickname Flying Banana.
Helicopter pioneer Frank N. Piasecki, who flew his first rotorcraft in 1943, has received the Helicopter Foundation International's Hall of Fame Award and honorary life membership in the Helicopter ...
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