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The Consolidated P-30 is significant for being the first fighter in United States Army Air Corps service to have retractable landing gear, an enclosed and heated cockpit for the pilot, and an exhaust-driven turbosupercharger for altitude operation.
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The Curtiss XP-40Q was elvulated by the USAAF with only 2 built, but the end of the war led to cancellation of development of the Warhawk. One crashed during testing and the second XP-40Q prototype ended its carrer as a postwar air racer flown by Jean Skip Zeigler.
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Neil Armstrong and the Bell LLRV
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Bell Aerospace in Wheatfield, NYdesigned and built the Lunar Lander Research Vehicle that that played a significant role in Neil Armstrong landing on the surface of the moon.
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Neil Armstrong Dead At Age 82. First man to walk on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 mision on July 20, 1969. A great American hero who
US Navy RC-4 Curtiss Condor
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On 14 August 1945, the Japanese accepted the terms of the Potsdam Declaration and agreed to surrender, ending World War II. It is known as V-J Day! Announcing the news the country in the evening, President Harry S. Truman also proclaimed a two-day holiday. Explosive celebrations immediately followed as Americans and their Allies rejoiced that World War II appeared to be at an end. Note, on 2 September 1945, representatives from Japan signed the Instrument of Surrender on board USS Missouri (BB 63) in Tokyo Bay
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