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Classic Wings Magazine WWII Naval Aviation Research Pacific Luftwaffe Resource Center
When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


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Not that I would ever do that kind of thing.

But is this a first? Fuzzy, but from 1912, near the end of the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71_0t9lF2LQ

Anybody else got good "under bridge" photos/videos?

Ray Hanna of course: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf3UtmHLKUU

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I have a VHS video of an L-19 going under a bridge with it's wheels dragging in the water.
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From the title cards:

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Coffyn's first trip over the Statue of Liberty, and Ellis Island which had considerable newspaper publicity given to this part of the flight as good examples for air bombing.


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Dang.....and to think it was perfectly legal....... :shock:
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