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Charles Lindbergh Comes to Maine: That One Time Lindy Was Late
After his history-making flight, Charles Lindbergh visited all 48 states. The people of Portland were ready.
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Patsy Cline’s Final Flight
What the fatal airplane crash of the country star says about flying then and now.
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From Glenn Miller to Aaliyah: Popular Musicians Who Died in Airplane Crashes
Traveling by air proved fatal to these popular performers, including Buddy Holly.
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Female Flyers: Meet the Woman Who Strapped Her Feet to a Plane
Pioneering aviator Ruth Bancroft Law was once described as “125 pounds of nerve and pluck.”
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Can You Identify This Unusual Utility Airplane?
Production of its design ceased in 2006, but numerous examples of this far-from-mysterious success story still fly to this day.
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‘A-20 Havoc’: The Unglamorous Yet Most Versatile Combat Aircraft of World War II
There’s no shortage of books about airplanes, but here are a few more you may find of interest, with subject matter that ranges all over the world.
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Interview: Nell McShane Wulfhart / ‘The Great Stewardess Rebellion’
Life wasn’t all that glamorous for flight attendants during the “golden age” of air travel, as a new book points out.
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Israel’s Bait-and-Switch: When the IAF Lured Soviet MiGs to Their Destruction
In 1970 the Israeli Air Force took a page from Colonel Robin Olds’ 1967 Vietnam War Operation Bolo, luring Soviet-flown MiG-21s into air combat and shooting down five.
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Toss Grenades From an Open Cockpit? In 1911, an American Soldier Had a Better Idea.
Near the dawn of the air age, an Army lieutenant realized that the airplane provided the ultimate high ground.