Aviation History

BURNELLI’S DEAD END

he New England Air Museum has restored an airplane that represents a fascinating but pointless path in American aviation history. The one-of-a-kind 1947 CBY-3 Loadmaster was Vincent Burnelli’s final attempt to prove that making an airplane’s fuselage an airfoil would

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