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    SHELL VEGA RESURRECTED

    Oct 30, 2018 1 minute
    Stephan Wilkinson

    Jimmy Doolittle loved Lockheed Vegas, which is not surprising, since the Vega was probably the most sophisticated single-engine production aircraft of the early 1930s. Doolittle temporarily left the active Army Air Corps in 1931 to become manager

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