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🔥 💨 Doc starting engines with a little bit of native Kansas vegetation in the foreground just like what would have been seen during the Battle of Kansas in 1944.

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🔥 When history arrives, you feel it in your chest
✈️ B-29 Doc touches down with that iconic tire smoke 💨—now rocking fresh true-to-service markings that make this living legend hit even harder.

🔥 Not once. Not twice. Three nuclear blasts.
☢️ This XF-90 was parked near ground zero during Operation Upshot-Knothole and endured THREE atomic detonations—a brutal test to see how aircraft handled shockwaves, heat, and radiation. And somehow… it’s still here at the NMUSAF telling that story.
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It’s always a surprise to the uninitiated when you hear the expected growl of a radial engine just to be followed up by unmistakable tones of the jet engine spooling up.

and I had a great time at Bob Ross Paint and Sip. We had a few happy accidents and definitely painted some happy little trees.

🔥 Watch it twice — your brain will thank you
🛩️ First half: full speed as the P-51 “Bunny” charges straight down the runway at sunset.
🐢 Second half: the exact same pass slowed to 20%, letting every detail soak in — prop blur, gear, light, and that Merlin magic.

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Nothing but pure Rolls-Royce Merlin music as this P-51 Mustang taxis out of Fightertown at Oshkosh. No commentary. No distractions. Just one of the greatest sounds in aviation history doing its thing. ✈️🔥

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🔥 When you think it’s over… the Raptor says not yet
The F-22 Raptor aborts the landing and comes screaming back over Oshkosh for another thunderous pass — pure raw power, noise, and dominance. If you were there, you felt this one in your chest.

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🔥 Ever seen a B-29 wake up like THIS?
💨 Doc’s engine #3 lights off with a smoky, throaty startup that never gets old—raw radial power, oil smoke, and pure WWII history coming to life. If this doesn’t give you chills, check your pulse.

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🎥 SLOW. STEADY. MASSIVE.
No rush. No drama. Just a flying reminder that function beats form every single time. The Super Guppy never needed to look good — it needed to work.

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