In Operation Snow Blow II, USAF C-5s, C-141s, and C-130s airlifts 2,339 tons of snow- removal equipment, generators, communications gear, and more than 1,000 passengers after a severe snowstorm in southern New England.
In 1941, Gen. Henry H. “Hap” Arnold of the then-U.S. Army Air Corps, personally reviewed a jet engine patented by Sir Frank Whittle flying on a Gloster E.28/39 aircraft. Impressed by its design, Arnold arranged for a Whittle engine to be brought back to the U.S. and tasked General Electric…