Vincent J. Burnelli wanted to incorporate maximum efficiency in the realm of air transport. The unorthodox result pioneered the wide-body cabin and the lifting-fuselage design.
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Successor to the Flying Tigers: The China Air Task Force
The China Air Task Force was a scrappy but beleaguered fill-in that fought both the Japanese and supply shortcomings until the Fourteenth Air Force was formed.
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World’s First Winged Airline
Scheduled service on the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line in the
winter of 1914 treated a passenger or two to a wooden seat, fresh
Florida air—and salt spray in the face.
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The Autogiro & Grumman J2F Duck
Captain John Miller had what it took to fly the weird ones—the autogiro and the Grumman J2F Duck.
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Interview: Colonel Evgeny Nikolayevitch Stepanov / Soviet Fighter on Three Fronts
In the years before World War II, Russia’s Evgeny Stepanov flew against the Germans over Spainand fought the Japanese over Khalkin Gol.
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It’s all happening at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo
I do believe it’s true—the Kalamazoo ‘Air Zoo’ airplane collection features several lively aerial ‘animals’—and plenty more!
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An SAS Rescue Mission Mission Gone Wrong
When covert operatives went into Italy to retrieve prisoners of war, little went according to plan.
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This Frenchman Tried to Best the Wright Brothers on Their Home Turf
The Wrights won.
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The Explosion of Mount Hood
One minute this 460-foot-long munition ship was there, then it wasn’t.
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The Scandal that Led to Harry S. Truman Becoming President and Marilyn Monroe Getting Married
Did Curtiss-Wright deliberately sell defective engines to the U.S. Army during WWII?