SKYFARING: A Journey With a Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, […]
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Daily Quiz for August 22, 2015
On September 7, 1864, Union general W. T. Sherman ordered this city evacuated.
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Mystery Ship, November 2015
Can you Identify this early tilt rotor craft? Click here for the answer.
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Mystery Ship, November 2015 – Bell XV-15
The Bell XV-15 tiltrotor demonstrator was the much-flown progenitor of today’s Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey. […]
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Building an Arado Ar-234B-2/N
Historical records indicate that Germany only built 210 Arado Ar-234 “Blitz” aircraft before World […]
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Daily Quiz for August 21, 2015
During the Korean War UN fighter pilots gave this name to the northwestern portion of North Korea, where the Yalu River empties into the Yellow Sea.
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Did Poorer Farmers Band Together to Buy Slaves?
Was there anything like a “farmer’s cooperative” in which poorer farmers joined together to buy and jointly own slaves?
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Daily Quiz for August 20, 2015
The USS Bainbridge, the first ship of this type, was commissioned in 1962.
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Time Travel: The Original Ground Zero
New Mexico’s Trinity Site saw the first atomic explosion
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Daily Quiz for August 19, 2015
The only major combat parachute jump of the Vietnam War took place during this operation.