After an arduous, exhausting, multi-generational fight of over seventy years, American women won the right to vote with the passage of the nineteenth amendment in 1920. The constitutional change was announced by this secretary of state.
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Aviation History Book Review: Contrails Over the Mojave
Contrails Over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Fighter Testing at Edwards Air […]
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René Fonck: Allied Ace of Aces
‘He is a tiresome braggart, and even a bore, but in the air, a slashing rapier,’ wrote Claude Haegelen of squadron mate René Fonck—and he was one of Fonck’s best friends.
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Two Electras in Search of Howland Island
Thirty years after Amelia Earhart vanish, another woman flier set out to retrace her […]
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The Barling Bomber: “Billy” Mitchell’s Long Range Failure
Cost overruns and poor performance doomed the experimental strategic bomber, but it helped point the way to the future.
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Corsair! The Award-Winning Painting
American Society of Aviation Artists 2008 Award of Distinction winner. The clean, distinctive lines […]
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Nebraska’s RF-4C Phantom II Restored
The Nebraska Air National Guard reclaims an RF-4C, preserving its own history. For many […]
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Herman the German the Secrets and Myths of the Japanese Zero
Master engineer Gerhard Neumann helped keep the Tigers flying and enabled the Allies to evaluate the first captured Japanese Zero.
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Aviation History Today: September 2009
Scrapyard Spitfire There are more Spitfires flying today than have been airworthy since the […]
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Aviation History Review: DCS- Black Shark
Can a flight sim offer too much detail, even for dedicated players? If it […]