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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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 […]
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Around Latin America in 133 Days
In 1926 a crack team of U.S. Army airmen set out in amphibious biplanes […]
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The Heinkel He-162 was the Luftwaffe’s Wooden Wonder Weapon
Had it been produced in greater numbers, Heinkel’s jet-powered He-162 could have helped the Germans prolong World War II.
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18 Downed in a Day
Luftwaffe ace Bully Lang had several claims to fame in the course of his […]
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Desert Rat Reborn
A rare B-17E is slowly being brought back to life in an Illinois pole […]
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Beechcraft’s Bulldog
Denied its chance for glory, the pugnacious A17FS languished as a “hangar queen” for […]
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Building Legends: North American F-86 Sabre and the GE J47 Engine
The March 2017 issue of Aviation History magazines tells the tale of two aviation […]
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The Lindberghs’ Forgotten Flight to the Orient
In 1931 the celebrated aviator and his wife set out on an adventure across […]