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Aviation

Book Reviews: MHQ Notable Books, Summer 2011

Published: May 03, 2011 at 5:00 am

New releases look at Hannibal, Britain in the Middle East, and the rise and fall of airpower.

Shooting Down the Legend of the Red Baron's Triplane

O'Brien Browne | Published: November 10, 2010 at 6:11 pm

Despite its enduring fame, the Red Baron’s slow, crash-prone plane was no great fighting machine.

Wild Blue Yonder

Robert M. Citino | Published: October 25, 2009 at 6:21 pm (9 Comments)

There was nothing romantic about the flying a bomber. The combined danger of flight, flak, and fighters combined to give U.S. bomber crews a shockingly high casualty rate.

The Unconventional Burt Rutan

Peter Garrison | Published: September 20, 2009 at 12:30 pm

In a career that has flouted convention, Burt Rutan made advances to the stall-resistant canard wing and designed SpaceShipOne, the first privately funded aircraft to achieve suborbital flight.

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