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Birth of the American Jet Age
Although they lacked the glamour of German designs, American jets developed during WWII established the groundwork for a revolution.
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Goodyear’s Inflatable Rubber Aircraft
Building a rubber airplane or glider that would safely bounce a few times in […]
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A Lizzie gets back in shape at Canada’s Warplane Heritage Museum
The Westland Lysander Mark III had sat out in a farmer’s field in rural […]
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Was USS Los Angeles ‘the most successful airship ever flown’?
Rigid airships represent the transition from single pilot hot air balloons to massive gas-filled […]
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Blohm und Voss Bv-141: Nazi Germany’s Weird, Lopsided Warplane
This bizarre-looking, asymmetrical scouting plane looked like it couldn’t fly. But was this Luftwaffe experiment really a failure?
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Early Bird continues to challenge the Wright’s claim of the first powered flight
For more than a century, historians have generally agreed that Wilbur and Orville Wright […]
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Detailing John Boyd’s F-100 ‘Hun’
When it was introduced into the arsenal of the U.S. Air Force in the […]
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The Air Force Maverick Who Led the “Fighter Mafia”
Colonel John Boyd was a true original—but he paid a stiff price.
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Knight Flier
Airmail pilot Jack Knight’s heroic flight in a day-and-night ‘grand relay’ brought him instant […]