Convair XF-92 // USAF - NASA (signed) Space and Rockets The CH-47 Chinook

The CH-47 Chinook

the "Berg" had a nasty habit of shedding its wing fabric and the engine tended to overheat

An unofficial motto of flight research in the 1940s and 1950s was "higher and faster

the M134 six-barrel 7

In late 1977 the USAF selected the DC-10 to meet its Advance Tanker/Cargo Aircraft requirement

Convair XF-92 // USAF - NASA (signed) Space and Rockets The CH-47 ChinookThis airplane was the world's first jet aircraft to fly using the radical delta wing configuration pioneered by Germany's Dr. Alexander Lippisch during the 1930s. The Convair Model 7002 was completed in 1948 as a flying mock up for the proposed delta wing XP 92 interceptor. (In 1948 the Air Force changed the designation from P for pursuit to F for fighter). The XP 92 was to be powered with a new propulsion system that would consist of a ramjet engine