In 1938 three RAF single-engine bombers set out on an adventure to Oz, hoping to break a nonstop distance record.
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SR-71 Blackbird ‘Unstart’ Over Murmansk
All hell broke loose at 83,000 feet, just as a Soviet SAM site had the SR-71 Blackbird in its sights.
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American Kamikaze
U.S. Navy pilot “Griff” Griffin survived intense combat in the Pacific War, then trained […]
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Spitfire From the Sands: A Classic Fighter’s Resurrection
In the fall of 1980, a beachcomber walking the shoreline at Calais, on France’s northern coast, spotted something unusual protruding from the wet sand.
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Fly the Swiss Alps
A new German sim picks up where Microsoft left off. Microsoft quickly gave up […]
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Aviation History Book Review: The Wind and Beyond
The Wind and Beyond: Theodore von Karman, Pioneer in Aviation and Pathfinder in Space […]
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Aviation History Book Review: British Experimental Combat Aircraft of World War II
British Experimental Combat Aircraft of World War II: Prototypes, Research Aircraft and Failed Production […]
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Aviation History Book Review: Naval Aviation in the Korean War
Naval Aviation in the Korean War: Aircraft, Ships and Men By Warren Thompson, Pen […]
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Aviation History Book Review: On a Steel Horse I Ride
On a Steel Horse I Ride: A History of the MH-53 Pave Low Helicopters […]
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The Wee Bee: Saga of the World’s Smallest Piloted Airplane
In the late 1940s, a group of moonlighting engineers set out to build the […]