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ART CHESTER SWEE’ PEA AIR RACER RECOVERED Rare 1947 V-Tail plane now at the Spirit of Flight Museum!
Erie, Colorado, Monday, January 29, 2018: The Spirit of Flight museum added a piece of air racing history to its growing collection with the delivery of a 1947 Art Chester design known as the Swee’ Pea. The museum plans to restore the plane to static condition to help tell the story of early air racing.…
Read MoreJOHN B. “BEAR” SHATTUCK, UNITED STATES NAVY, LCDR
John B. Shattuck, my Grandfather, had a distinguished career in the Navy. He flew numerous secret missions over the former Soviet Union in a hair raising battle of cat and mouse. In the Cold War, a war were secrecy was everything, those who stalked the skies held the world in their hands. They carried nuclear weapons…
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