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  • Flying coffin is a pejorative term for an aircraft perceived by crews or the public to have a poor safety record or low combat effectiveness. McDonnell...
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    Still Uses Flying Coffins MiG-21s?". SSBCrack. Retrieved 21 May 2023. "Mig-21 Crash: Despite Chequered Safety Record, Why The 'Flying Coffin' Still Remains...
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    be no match for the Zero, the F2A-3 was derided by USMC pilots as a "flying coffin". Indeed, the F2A-3s performance was substantially inferior to the F2A-2...
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    war years. Even so, the C-46 was referred to by ATC pilots as the "flying coffin" with at least 31 known instances of fires or explosions in flight between...
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    The Hump (redirect from Flying the Hump)
    Force-wide as "Dumbo" and "Plumber's Nightmare", and among ATC crews as the "flying coffin". In its first five months of operations, 20% of the C-46s assigned...
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    Jonah Ray: Human giant from Hawaii at thatotherpaper.com Interview by Flying Coffin Podcast interview on The Gentlemen's Club with Caleb Bacon Jonah Ray...
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    common ones being Witwenmacher ("widowmaker") or Fliegender Sarg ("flying coffin"). It was also called Erdnagel ("ground nail"), the official military...
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    the Starfighter as the Witwenmacher (widow-maker), fliegender Sarg (flying coffin), Fallfighter (falling fighter) and Erdnagel (tent peg, literally "ground...
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    Other colorful nicknames included "Martin Murderer", "Flying Coffin", "B-Dash-Crash", "Flying Prostitute" (so-named because it was so fast and had "no...
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    modernization of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, from being the hub of "flying coffin helicopters" and an "Itali Yan" navy, to the home of a strong and well-equipped...
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  • flying coffins? Laoag Air planes grounded | Philstar.com". "Airline of flying coffins? Laoag Air planes grounded | Philstar.com". "Airline of flying coffins...
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    Aero Publishers (US). p. 4. Guttman, Robert (2012). "Fokker's Fabulous Flying Coffin". Aviation History. 22 (5): 42. "Motor Guns-A flashback to 1914–18"...
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    Republicans covertly, such as the Potez 540 bomber aircraft (nicknamed the "Flying Coffin" by Spanish Republican pilots), Dewoitine aircraft, and Loire 46 fighter...
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    in accidents that claimed lives — and it was given the nickname "the flying coffin" in the 1920s[citation needed]. In 1920, the Belgian government started...
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  • Republicans by covert means. Potez 540 bomber aircraft (nicknamed the "Flying Coffin") by Spanish Republican pilots Dewoitine aircraft and Loire 46 fighter...
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  • Mendoza Manila City Hall Rember Gelera 7th 2019 Gabi ng Lagim VII Flying Ataul Flying Coffin Adolfo Alix Jr. October 27, 2019 16.8 Museo Museum Rember Gelera...
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    Werner, H. A. Iron Coffins: A U-boat Commander's War, 1939–45. London: Cassells, 1999. ISBN 0-304-35330-2. Yenne, Bill. Seaplanes & Flying Boats: A Timeless...
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    hurt by the reputation of the DH-4s it produced as "flaming coffins" or "flying coffins", although they were not in reality more subject to catching...
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    Coffin corner (also known as the aerodynamic ceiling or Q corner) is the region of flight where a fast but subsonic fixed-wing aircraft's stall speed is...
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    Aviation History. 23 (6): 50. Guttman, Robert (2012). "Fokker's Fabulous Flying Coffin". Aviation History. 22 (5): 42. Longyard, p. 71. "Wie de mannen der...
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