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Topic Archives:Aviation & Spaceflight

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This Maori WWII Ace Lived and Died as a Hero

by Jon Guttman1/25/20231/26/2023
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The Day the World’s Best Aviator Killed Will Rogers (and Himself)

by Robert O. Harder1/25/20231/6/2024

Building an English Electric Canberra

by Dick Smith1/20/20231/20/2023
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Was the Boeing 247 Really Everything It’s Supposed to Be?

by Stephan Wilkinson1/18/20231/18/2023
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WWI American Pilots Wanted a Great Fighter Plane. Instead, They Got the Nieuport 28.

by Jon Guttman1/11/20233/10/2023

How To Re-Engine a B-52 and Make A New Bomber Fleet

by Stephen Losey1/9/20231/9/2023
A B-52D Stratofortress leaves Andersen Air Force Base on Guam for a bombing run over North Vietnam. B-52s delivered 75 percent of the bomb tonnage during Operation Linebacker II, launched on Dec. 18, 1972, to pressure Hanoi into signing a peace agreement.

How Operation Linebacker II Took the North Vietnamese By Surprise

by Carl O. Schuster1/4/20231/4/2023

No, the London Blitz Wasn’t Started By Accident

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher and Claire Barrett1/4/20231/4/2023
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The Spiteful Was Better Than the Spitfire, But Even That Wasn’t Good Enough

by Robert Guttman 12/28/20221/7/2023

Everett Alvarez Jr., Imprisoned in Vietnam For 3,113 Days, Is Nominated For Congressional Gold Medal

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher12/27/202212/27/2022

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