Adventurers & Trail Blazers
Published: September 20, 2009 at 2:51 pm
The November 2009 Aviation History Reader's poll asks readers to assess the skill of aerospace engineer Burt Rutan.
Published: September 04, 2009 at 10:47 am
November 2009 Aviation History features articles on Burt Rutan, Lloyd Stearman, Operation Mallory Major, Keith and Ross Smith's England-to-Australia Vickers Vimy flight, and the Avro Vulcan.
Published: September 02, 2009 at 2:02 pm
In the September 2009 Aviation History Mailbag readers discuss the Merlin engine, the Wright 3350 engine, John Newton Williams' helicopter, the greatest emergency landings and Amelia Earhart.
Gregory Lalire |
Published: June 03, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Such intrepid 19th-century explorers as Joe Walker, John Wesley Powell, Benjamin Bonneville, Jedediah Smith and others explored much of the West, yet there remain corners for curious minds to explore.
Susan K. Salzer |
Published: April 02, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Medicine Bill Comstock, descendant of James Fenimore Cooper, brought his uncle's mythical Natty Bumppo to life on the Great Plains as a hunter, trapper and cultural go-between.
Donna Gholson Cook |
Published: October 14, 2008 at 5:23 pm
The 1838 Battle of Battle Creek, Texas, also known as the Surveyors’ Fight, pitted a surveying party comprised of veterans of the Texas Revolution against a Kickapoo war band.
Nick D'Alto |
Published: April 02, 2007 at 9:52 am
Exclusive interview with Dr. William Kelso, chief archaeologist for the Jamestown Rediscovery Project, concerning the significance of Jamestown, Virginia, in the history of America.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:17 pm
The Pony Express only operated for about 18 months, but the picture-perfect enterprise captured the imagination of a nation and has grown larger than life through the years.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:16 pm
The MacMillan Arctic Expedition marked the first productive use of aircraft in Arctic exploration by Americans and brought Richard Byrd into the national limelight.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Many pilots considered navigating to Bermuda far too risky in 1930. But an intrepid trio set off in a Stinson Detroiter, determined to prove they could handle that risk.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Bloody and battered from an encounter with a she-grizzly, old trapper Hugh Glass was eventually left to die by two of his comrades. When he refused to die before exacting revenge, a legend was born.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:15 pm
Robert Falcon Scott, the Antarctic pioneer, headed south to make sure that Britain won the race to the South Pole.By Bruce Heydt
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:14 pm
The Army proved a point when Lieutenants Kelly and Macready flew from New York to San Diego in 1923.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:14 pm
President George Washington watched aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard make the first aerial voyage in the New World.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:13 pm
A skillful transpacific flier, Hollywood stunt pilot and daring racer, Arthur Goebel Jr. seemed to thrive on danger.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:13 pm
When R.J. 'Fish' Hassell and Parker 'Shorty' Cramer took off for Stockholm, Sweden, in their Stinson Detroiter in August 1928, they embarked on what was only the first leg of a long and remarkable journey.
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