Ben Branch
November 27, 2021
This 1960 Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is currently being offered for sale for $995,000 USD, making it one of the most affordable fully-functional fighter jets for sale anywhere in the world. The word “affordable” is relative of course, but in…
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Ben Branch
November 23, 2021
This is an original US Navy Seal Riverine Assault Boat, or simply a “RAB” for short. It’s powered by twin diesel engines with Hamilton H292 Waterjets giving it a top speed of 40+ knots with…
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Ben Branch
November 19, 2021
The 1941 Harley-Davidson TA Knucklehead was developed during the early days of World War II when it was clear that large numbers of off-road capable vehicles were going to be required by the US armed…
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Ben Branch
November 4, 2021
This Waco UIC Cabin Class biplane has a fascinating history, it was being used as a training aircraft by a Hawaiian flight school in the early 1940s and in the early morning of December…
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Ben Branch
October 28, 2021
The supersonic MiG-21 is remembered today as one of the most successful fighter jets of all time, amazingly the aircraft is still in service with a number of militaries today, over 66 years after…
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Ben Branch
October 17, 2021
When the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 first appeared in the skies over Europe in 1941 it shocked the world, it was superior to all of the Allied fighters (other than high-altitude flight capability), and it…
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Ben Branch
October 14, 2021
The CF-104D Starfighter is the Canadian-built version of the legendary Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, an aircraft remembered today as the first production aircraft to reach Mach 2, and the first aircraft to reach an altitude of…
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Ben Branch
September 22, 2021
This is an original Land Rover Winter Water Wolf, it’s one of just 50 that are thought to have been built for Britain’s Royal Marines to be used in amphibious landing operations and extreme cold weather…
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Ben Branch
August 23, 2021
The Austin Champ was created in the years after WWII as the British answer to the American Jeep. Development started in 1947 and resulted in a unique four-wheel drive with a Rolls-Royce engine, all-independent…
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Ben Branch
July 30, 2021
This is a Steyr-Puch Pinzgauer 712DK 6×6 and unlike its contemporaries, it’s been covered with artwork by Nico Sclater, aka Ornamental Conifer, a celebrated British artist who works on a vast array of canvasses from…
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Ben Branch
July 5, 2021
The Hughes AIM-4 Falcon was the first operational guided air-to-air missile used by the United States Air Force, development began soon after WWII ended in 1946 and it was first tested just three years…
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Ben Branch
June 18, 2021
The Yakovlev Yak-3 was the Soviet WWII fighter that helped assert air dominance over the Eastern Front in the closing stages of the war. The Yak-3 was put into service relatively late in the…
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