A-6 Intruder VMA-242 Airline and Commercial The blunt-end design for the

The blunt-end design for the Command Module was chosen to build upon experience gained with the similarly shaped Mercury and Gemini spacecraft

a 1800-ton sloop-of-war with 23 guns

The Ju-52 tri-motor was first built in the 1930s

The airplane was also used by the air forces of 20 other nations

Hawker Hurricane model airplane

A-6 Intruder VMA-242 Airline and Commercial The blunt-end design for theGrumman A 6 Intruder VMA 242 airplane model. The first Intruders, the A 6A, first saw combat in March l965 in Vietnam, operating from the USS Independence. From that point on, Intruders of various models became heavily involved in the fighting in Southeast Asia. On February 27, l970, Grumman flew the first example of the A6 E, an advanced, upgraded version of the A 6A aircraft. The A6 E had two 9,300 lb thrust Pratt &amp, Whitney J52 P 8B turbojets,