One of the greatest early aerobatic pilots, Bert Acosta couldn’t overcome his inner demons. […]
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Wildcats Battle Hawks Over Casablanca During Operation Torch
In one of WWII’s more ironic spectacles, American planes fought American planes in the skies above French Morocco.
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Angel Flight: The Pilot Who Discovered the World’s Tallest Waterfall
Jimmie Angel searched Venezuela’s “Lost World” for a fabled river of gold, but all […]
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Pearl Harbor Sabre
Korean War rivals face off in the Pacific Aviation Museum’s new MiG Alley exhibit. […]
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Airware: Gotha G.V Bomber
Rise of Flight add-on offers a new perspective on World War I air combat. […]
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Book review: AMARG-America’s Military Aircraft Boneyard
AMARG: America’s Military Aircraft Boneyard by Nicholas A. Veronico and Ron Strong, Specialty Press, […]
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The Aircraft Boneyard of AMARG
The world’s second-largest air force stretches wing to wing across four square miles of Arizona desert.
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Above the Roof of the World
The 1933 Houston-Westland flight over Mount Everest took British imperial derring-do to new heights.
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How the Luftwaffe Kept ’em Flying
Without efficient maintenance, the vaunted German aces would never have gotten off the ground. […]
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Superbomber’s Achilles’ Heel
Long revered as the airplane that won the Pacific War, the B-29 was a […]