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Westland Wessex: This Helicopter Turned Heads in “Full Metal Jacket”
The Westland Wessex was the first helicopter in the world with a gas turbine propulsion system to be produced in large ...
Walton Goggins’s Wild Ride to Stardom
Three decades after he arrived in Hollywood with $300 in his pocket, Goggins is finally a bona fide star, with another season ...
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Real-Life Retired Marines Who Became Actors
In theory, actors and United States Marines might seem to be the extreme opposites of one another. The latter are perceived ...
The off-the-grid adventures of Walton Goggins
Thirty years into his career, the one-time character actor has taken a hard turn into leading-man territory – first in the ...
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Westland Wessex: This Helicopter Turned Heads in “Full Metal Jacket”
Built by the now defunct Westland Aircraft/Westland Helicopters (the same company that made the Lysander spy plane of World War II, the first short takeoff and landing aircraft), the Westland ...
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The Little-Known M41 Walker Bulldog Found Fame in “Full Metal Jacket”
The American-made Bulldog never saw action at the hands of U.S. tank crews, but it still saw combat. This coming April will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, and one of the ...