Captain Erroll Boyd gunned the motor of his 5-year-old Bellanca monoplane Columbia to full power on the rough strip at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, on October 9, 1930. At first she would not budge.
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Moye Stephens: Aviation Pioneer and Adventurer
Moye Stephens piloted more than 100 types of aircraft and flew around the world in The Flying Carpet.
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William Henson and John Stringfellow: Pioneer Aviation Strategists
In the 1840s, British aeronautical pioneers envisioned a world where air travel would connect people around the globe.
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Book Review: AMERICAN EAGLES: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE (Ron Dick) : AH
AMERICAN EAGLES: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE, by Ron Dick, Howell […]
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Book Review: Stalin’s Aviation Gulag: A Memoir of Andrei Tupolev and the Purge Era (Von Hardesty) : AH
Even confinement in Stalin’s gulag failed to stifle the geniusof Russian aircraft designer Andrei […]
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Book Review: Arado: History of an Aircraft Company (Dr. Jorg Armin Kranzhoff) : AH
The Arado aircraft company arose quietly under restrictions, but it soon became a solid […]
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Book Review: High in the Empty Blue / The History of 56 Squadron
High in the Empty Blue: The History of 56 Squadron, RFC/RAF, 1916 to 1920, […]
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Book Review: Highest Traditions: The History of No. 2 Squadron, RAAF
Highest Traditions: The History of No. 2 Squadron, RAAF by John Bennett, AGPS Press, […]
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Book Review – The Golden Age Remembered: U.S. Naval Aviation, 1919-1941 (edited by E.T. Woolridge) : AVH
The Golden Age Remembered: U.S. Naval Aviation, 1919-1941, edited by E.T. Woolridge, Naval Institute […]
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John Macready–Aviation Pioneer: At the Earth’s Ceiling (by Sally Macready Wallace) : AVH
John Macready–Aviation Pioneer: At the Earth’s Ceiling, by Sally Macready Wallace, Sunflower University Press, […]