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Book Review: Sopwith Camel
One of the risks of being a geezer is remembering what it was like so many years ago, when aircraft books were published at the rate of perhaps 10 or 15 a year, and most of them were rehashes of known material.
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Book Review: Mustang, by Steve Pace
Mustang: Thoroughbred Stallion of the Air by Steve Pace, Fonthill, Gloucester, UK, 2012, $39.95 […]
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Book Review: Air Commanders
Air Commanders edited by John Andreas Olsen, Potomac Books, Washington, D.C., 2012, $45 The […]
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Book Review: Into the Abyss, by Carol Shaben
Into the Abyss: An Extraordinary True Story by Carol Shaben, Grand Central Publishing, Toronto, […]
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The Perfect Wing, Who Designed It?
Did an obscure German welder in Anthony Fokker’s employ, rather than the Dutch aviation […]
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An Around-the-World Flight ‘Foredoomed to Failure’
In August 1922, the crew of a steam launch plucked two exhausted and half-starved British airmen from the Bay of Bengal.
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Skyrocketing Through Mach 2
How Scott Crossfield scored aviation’s double-sonic prize. Sixty years ago, high above California’s Antelope […]
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The Bergdoll Flyer: 1911 Wright Model B
Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute has displayed a rare 1911 Wright Model B for almost 80 […]
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The Safe and Useful Airplane
As Allied fighters fell in droves to the Germans during “Bloody April” 1917, Orville […]