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Sun, Sep 27, 2026, 18:26:26 MT

SIMPLE FLYING · GA

BOEING SPENT $67 MILLION OF ITS OWN MONEY BUILDING A STEALTH JET ON BEECH KING AIR LANDING GEAR...

In the late 1990s, Boeing built a unique stealth demonstrator that never carried a weapon or broke any records, and rolled on landing gear borrowed directly from a Beech King Air.

SCOTT: This is the kind of thing that shows up at the FBO desk two weeks later. Screenshot it, then go look at your own field’s version of the same problem.

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