At a time when the basic elements of aircraft design were still being sorted out, this forgotten airplane sported a different sort of wing.
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The Daring Plan to Mine Haiphong Harbor
Nixon’s speech also had a more militarily important purpose: to announce an operation that would hasten the end of a war that had been waged by U.S. combat troops for almost 10 years.
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Operation Spring High: Thuds vs. SAMs
The first attack against North Vietnamese SA-2 missile sites devolved into a debacle of dummy targets and downed aircraft, but it forced military leaders to find ways to counter the new threat
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Thunder in the Cinema: Hollywood’s Jet Age Movies
Hollywood’s fictional U.S. Air Force films often diverged from reality, but most are worth watching if only for the aerial sequences featuring rare jet aircraft
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Forgotten First Flight Across the South Atlantic
It took three floatplanes and 79 days, but a pair of Portuguese airmen succeeded in crossing the South Atlantic by air five years before Lindbergh’s famous flight
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Spitfire vs. Hurricane: First RAF Combat of World War II
Eighty years ago, the air war over Britain did not start well for the Royal Air Force in a “friendly fire” incident involving Spitfires and Hurricanes
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Thunderbolt Top Ace Contender in the Pacific War
Colonel Neel Kearby was among the top scorers in the Pacific when he pushed his luck too far while chasing Eddie Rickenbacker’s record.
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Slaughter of the Stukas: Ace in a Day P-38 Pilot
When American P-38s covering a British naval force in the Aegean Sea encountered a group of attacking German Ju-87s, a massacre ensued.
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The Mothman Who Flies 90-Year-Old Airplanes
The de Havilland airplane aficionado recently returned a 1928 Gipsy Moth to flight, adding to his existing flock of Moths.
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Voyager’s Nonstop Around-the-World Adventure
On a flight fraught with peril, two pilots circumnavigated the globe in a spindly twin-boom airplane with only the fuel they carried on takeoff.