“Shooting genius” James McCudden owed his success in aerial combat to precision, patience and […]
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The Incredible ‘Winkle’ Brown
First pilot to land a pure jet on an aircraft carrier. First to land a tricycle gear airplane on a carrier. First to land a high-performance twin on a carrier. First deck landing of a twin-engine jet on a British carrier.
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The Barling Bomber: “Billy” Mitchell’s Long Range Failure
Cost overruns and poor performance doomed the experimental strategic bomber, but it helped point the way to the future.
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Lloyd Stearman’s Sturdy Biplanes Trained Generations of Aviators
Lloyd Stearman’s sturdy airplanes earned a worldwide reputation for performance and reliability during aviation’s Golden Age.
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American History Book Review: A Mercy
A Mercy Toni Morrison, Alfred A. Knopf, 167 pp., $23.95 To the collective American […]
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Interview: Steven Hahn / The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom
Steven Hahn contends that blacks played a more active role in bringing an end […]
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Interview: William Goetzmann / American freedom
In 1776 Tom Paine titled his call to arms Common Sense. Why? Like Thomas […]
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Monticello: The House of the Future
Inspired by the past, Thomas Jefferson created more than a classic American house. One […]
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Three Books About the Lincoln-Douglass Dynamic
Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to […]