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October 27, 2010: pages for the
Kellett KD-1 and YO-60 autogyros, and the
Platt-LePage XR-1 autogyro
February 11, 2009: Added
reference links to Wikipedia to most all aircraft pages (and deleted some dead
weblinks).
March 16, 2005: Added pages for the Hughes
XF-11 and Spruce Goose, and the Republic XF-12 Rainbow.
August 2, 2004: Added a page for the Sikorsky JR2S (VS-44) flying boat.
September 23, 2003: Added a photo of the Hall PH-3 seaplane and another
Avenger photo.
July 20, 2003: Added the Consolidated (Convair) XB-36 Peacemaker.
March 14, 2003: Added five experimental jet bombers (XB-43, XB-45, XB-46,
XB-47, XB-48) that were designed (but not used) during the war.
December 8, 2002: Added the North American XB-28 prototype bomber, and
the Beech AT-10 trainer.
October 7, 2002: Added the Ryan YO-51 observation aircraft.
June 20, 2002: THIS WEBSITE IS
MOVING! I am going to a dedicated server under my domain name of
"daveswarbirds.com", so the new address will be http://www.daveswarbirds.com/usplanes.
Please update your bookmarks. The old address will hopefully still work, but a
re-direction will take the visitor to the new server. My aviation websites have become a
victim of their own success, as I was getting so many visitors that my ISP was complaining
about bandwidth useage, and I was forced to move to a commercial-grade server. This means
that my costs for keeping my aviation websites online has suddenly increased 150%, and I
was struggling to pay for them as it was. If you enjoy this site (or any of my other
sites), please consider becoming a sponsor (ie. - make a donation) so that I can stay
on-line. Email
me for further information if you are interested.
January 4, 2002: Added the Lockheed P2V
Neptune patrol bomber.
October 29, 2001: Added the Vought V-173 / XF5U-1 Flying Flapjack
experimental fighter.
August 11, 2001: Added the C-74 Globemaster transport.
August 9, 2001: Replaced the title header with a more useful navigational
bar. Added a page to allow for visitor donations, and pages linked to the popular planes
listing books for those planes on Amazon.com.
July 6, 2001: Added a page for the F-3 photo recon Havoc by Douglas
aircraft.
September 1, 2000: Added pages for the XB-42 Mixmaster and the XP-58
Chain Lightning.
May 22, 2000: Added a longer text history page for a handfull of the more
popular aircraft.
May 9, 2000: Added a page for the Naval Aircraft Factory PBN Nomad, and
extra photos for the Dauntless, Hudson, Maryland, Reporter, Destroyer, XA-32, C-46, O-46,
and O-47.
April 7, 2000: Added the Boeing/Vega YB-40 escort bomber.
April 6, 2000: Added the Northrop F-15 Reporter reconnaissance aircraft.
April 3, 2000: Added a color illustration to the XP-54, XP-55, XP-56, and
XP-67 pages.
March 14, 2000: Added a number of Attack aircraft pages: A-17A, A-24,
A-25, A-36, XA-32, XA-41.
February 1, 2000: Added a page for the Northrop N-3PB patrol bomber
floatplane.
January 6, 2000: Added pages for five experimental Navy fighters: Bell
XFL-1 Airabonita, Boeing XF8B-1, Curtiss XF14C, Curtiss XF15C-1, and the Grumman F4F-3S
"Wild Catfish" (Wildcat floatplane). Info on these planes was made
available by the San Diego
Aerospace Museum library, so a special "thanks!" to them.
November 23, 1999: Added a rating page for viewer input and votes, to
increase site traffic.
November 1, 1999: Added pages for the Douglas O-46 and North American
O-47.
October 26, 1999: Added more cross-reference designations to the Type
index to aid searches.
October 5, 1999: Added two B-17 photos, and a link to my new B-17 website.
September 11, 1999: Miscellaneous text enhancements.
June 13, 1999: Replaced the TG-4A photo with a correct one, added a page
for the Laister-Kauffmann XCG-10A.
May 27, 1999: Added links (for extra photos and data) to the individual
pages of all the more popular planes. Fixed inaccurate climb rate data on a dozen pages.
May 25, 1999: Added a page for the Noorduyn Norseman (UC-64 transport).
May 22, 1999: Added the XB-35 bomber, and a picture to the XP-67 page.
Added important entries on the Weblinks page.
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