Monday, January 14, 2019
About the author
My name is Vahe Demirjian and I have marveled at Southern California's aerospace heritage since I moved down to Orange County in August 2002. Although the eastern United States was a hotbed of early heavier-than-air aviation stemming from the Wright brothers' historic flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903, Southern California, however, became one of grand hearths of US aviation development thanks to both the Great Depression and World War II. After all, my father worked at Scientific Platers doing polishing for components of warplanes built in California and elsewhere.
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Acme S-1 Sierra: Torrance's native pusher airplane
As I've long recognized, the Western Museum of Flight in Torrance is ubiquitous for housing a variety of aircraft built in the Los Angel...
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The story of early American jet fighters has been well-documented in the literature, starting with the debut of the Bell P-59A Airacomet and...
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The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was one of the outstanding US fighters of World War II, one of only two American twin-engine fighter planes for ...
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The operational histories of the F-86 Sabre and F-100 Super Sabre jet fighters have been well-documented in the literature with emphasis on ...