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Maitland Bleecker’s Forgotten Whirlybird
Bleecker beat Igor Sikorsky to the punch by developing a fully controllable helicopter in 1930, only to see his invention abandoned for want of a $90 part.
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Bell X-2: The First Plane — and First Death — at Mach 3
The successor to Chuck Yeager’s X-1 paid a deadly price for breaking this supersonic record.
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Restored: The Last Typhoon
A famed ground-pounder—the sole surviving complete example of its type—has been returned to display […]
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Beech Starship: ‘Little Bighorn With Wings’
Expectations were high when Burt Rutan teamed up with Beech to produce the Starship […]
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Gen. Hap Arnold Led Air Superiority in WWII. You might be surprised by what he did as a major.
Pioneer American military pilot, champion of the Air Service, commanding general of the Army […]
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A Turn for the Worse
How a rainstorm and a navigational error led to the murder of two U.S. […]
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Howard 500: The Ultimate Piston Bizplane
The Howard 500 was the last production radial-engine passenger transport and the most advanced piston twin ever built
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The F-14 Tomcat Sharpens Its Claws at Topgun
A former Topgun instructor describes a typical combat training mission during his time at the Navy Fighter Weapons School.
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Hans-Ulrich Rudel: Eagle of the Eastern Front
Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Germany’s most highly decorated combat pilot, only shot down nine enemy aircraft, but he destroyed the equivalent of more than three Soviet tank corps