During the Cold War, the U.S. military pursued one of the strangest aviation projects ever conceived: an inflatable airplane.
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HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Navy plans to use inflatable cylinders to lift and roll a jet plane off a coral reef in Hawaii before removal from the ocean waters where the aircraft crashed on Nov. 20. Rear ...