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Its heavy body was aluminum and steel, with short, stubby wings. It had a single, fuselage-mounted 450-horsepower engine that used long, cumbersome driveshafts to turn both rotors. The airplane engine was under-powered for the job of spinning the big, floppy helicopter-like blades, but was...
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The E3-A Sentry is what you might call a command center in the sky. This plane is more commonly known as AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System). This flying war-room can detect ships, aircraft, and installations at great distances and directly commands battlefield units in order to ma...