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Ultimate Air Racing Machines: Gee Bee R-1 and R-2

by Robert Bernier3/10/20178/16/2022

The Granville brothers’ stubby Gee Bee R-1 and R-2 were designed for speed, not looks.

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Vietnam War flight simulations are usually interesting because they’re rare. This controversial period in […]

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Bomber Command by Max Hastings Rereading Bomber Command makes it easy to understand why […]

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F-86 SABRE VS MIG-15: Korea 1950-53 by Douglas C. Dildy and Warren E. Thompson, […]

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Boeing B-50 by Geoffrey Hays, Ginter Books, Simi Valley, Calif., 2012, $49.95  The Boeing […]

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The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight, […]

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Alexander P. De Seversky and the Quest for Air Power by James K. Libbey, […]

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The Curious Curse of Skylark

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What’s in a name? Everything, if it seems to invite disaster. Almost as long […]

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