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Aviation History
Nearly 80 years after their C-47 crashed into a mountain in China, the remains of a transport pilot and his fellow crewmen have yet to be recovered. His name was Jimmie Browne and he was my cousin, my neighbor, my role model and my...
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Aviation History
A C-47 pilot gives his son a firsthand look at the dangerous missions he flew in flak-filled skies on D-Day and beyond....
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Aviation History
A century ago, the U.S. Army Air Service embarked on its first major air campaign, presaging the combined-arms assaults to follow....
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Aviation History Magazine
Raymonde de Laroche’s first flight with Wilbur Wright sparked a fatal attraction to flying....
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Aviation History Magazine
After a group of Tuskegee pilots win a 1949 Air Force competition, their trophy mysteriously goes missing. Was it a military screw-up or racial animus?...
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Aviation History Magazine
Facing incredible odds and racial obstacles in 1916, Eugene Jacques Bullard excelled and rose as the world's first black pilot...
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Aviation History
The so-called Christmas Bombings in 1972 brought the North Vietnamese back to the negotiating table, but at a high cost...
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Aviation History
Few, if any, individuals are as well-known in the annals of aviation history as Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager....
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Aviation History Magazine
How the shootdown of a U-2 spyplane over Cuba by a Soviet surface-to-air missile nearly led to nuclear war...
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Aviation History Magazine
These 10 aviation tales prove that sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction....
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Aviation History Magazine
The never-built Horten Ho-229 has been the subject of more speculation and myths than any other World War II airplane...
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Aviation History Magazine
A forced landing on Greenland’s ice cap set in motion one of the most extensive—and costly—search-and-rescue operations ever mounted. It was called the Snowball Route—officially the North Atlantic Ferry Route—from Goose Bay,...
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Aviation History
As an aviator who flew the F-4D Phantom II with “Satan’s Angels” of the 433rd Tactical Fighter Squadron while stationed at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base in 1968-69, Gaillard Peck knows that air combat is both taxing and...
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Aviation History Magazine
A veteran of the B-24 raid on Ploesti tells the real story behind the costly mission. The events in the skies over the Mediterranean and southern Europe on August 1, 1943, have long been a historical bone of contention. On that fateful day...
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Aviation History Magazine
Before he gained a worldwide reputation as "Lucky Lindy," Charles A. Lindbergh developed a solid repertoire of aviation skills....
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Republic of China Air Force Major “Mike” Hua pulled off a nighttime dead-stick landing in an early U-2...
