A remarkable 1865 photograph captures the staff and residents of a New York City hospital
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Daily Quiz for October 23, 2018
On 16 January 1776 George Washington allowed this group to enlist in the Continental Army.
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X-43 Scramjet Success: Breaking the Mach 10 Barrier
The speed frontier has been broken, thanks to an experimental NASA jet.
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Albert Berry’s Leap of Fate
March 1, 1912, Jefferson Barracks, MO.—Captain Albert Berry makes the first successful parachute jump […]
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Book Review: Beaufighter Aces of World War 2
Beaufighter Aces of World War 2 by Andrew Thomas, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, England, $19.95. Looking […]
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Aviation History Book Review: The American Aircraft Factory in World War II
The American Aircraft Factory in World War II (Zenith Press, St Paul, Minn., 2006, […]
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We Guide to Strike
Gil Cohen’s ASAA “Award of Distinction” tribute to British Pathfinders. Gil Cohen’s painting We […]
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The First MiGs: Learning By Trial and Error
The design bureau’s early years were marked by as many failures as successes, but the company would go on to produce some of history’s greatest fighter aircraft.
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Britain’s ‘Bloody Paralyzer’
The first really large bombers to be produced in substantial numbers and employed in massed formations in a coordinated strategic offensive, the Handley Page O/100 and O/400 set the basic layout for both British and American bomber design.
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Clippers Circle the Globe
The attack on Pearl Harbor forced one Pan Am crew to attempt a round-the-world […]