Authoritative, in-depth history of world aviation from its origins to the Space Age. Aviation History offers air enthusiasts the most detailed coverage of the history of manned flight, with action-packed stories and illustrations that put the reader in the cockpit to experience aviation’s greatest dramas.
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Throughout history, countless records have demonstrated man’s fascination with flight. While the true origin of this quest to fly has long been lost, the reason behind it is quite obvious. As humans, we are hardwired with the desire to...
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Aviation History, Gear, Mag: Aviation History Featured
The Lockheed Constellation may be the object of more misinformation and fables than any other airliner ever made. Stephan Wilkinson sorts out fact from fiction in this Aviation History magazine article....
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Aviation History, Mag: Aviation History Aircraft
Its development was kept under wraps for 14 years, but by 1991, the F-117 Nighthawk had become a household word. Television viewers who tuned to the Cable News Network (CNN) on the evening of January 16, 1991, were treated to a rare live...
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Aviation History Magazine
After 23 years of restoration, a North American PBJ Mitchell named Semper Fi returns to the sky....
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After serving 22 years in Search and Rescue operations, a Coast Guard Sikorsky HH-52A Seaguard was accessioned into the National Air and Space Museum. This is the first Coast Guard aircraft to be acquired by the NASM and marks the...
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Aviation History, Gear, Mag: Aviation History Personalities
Gabby Gabreski nearly failed out of his Army Air Corps flight training, but went on to become the top American fighter ace in Europe during World War II and a jet ace in Korea. ...
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Aviation History Magazine
Fallacies have long obscured facts in the history of rotary engines. As in subsequent conflicts, airplane technology progressed at a rapid pace during World War I. In 1914 production aircraft speeds topped out around 80 mph, and most...
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Aviation History Magazine
Displayed in a museum halfway between Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska, is probably one of the finest—and undoubtedly one of the most lovingly restored—Boeing B-17s in existence. Flying Fortress serial No. 44-83559 is the centerpiece of the...
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Aviation History Magazine
Little did Lieutenant Milton H. Ashkins and Sergeant Raymond A. Roberts know when they took off from Ladd Field, Alaska, on June 16, 1941, that decades later the Douglas O-38F they were flying would become an important piece of history at...
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Aviation History Magazine
‘Yesterday I was in America, and I am the first man in Europe to say that,’ said John Alcock after his transatlantic flight with Arthur Whitten Brown. The real story of the first nonstop transatlantic flight is one that’s...
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Aviation History Magazine
A rash of mysterious airship sightings piqued the curiosity of Americans in the late 1800s. IN MARCH AND APRIL 1897 thousands of Midwestern Americans reported sightings of airships. On April Fools’ Day, as many as 10,000 reportedly...
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Aviation History Magazine
Robert F. DorrCan you Identify this late-1930s attack aircraft? Click Here for the answer....
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Nazi Blitz Bomber By Stephan Wilkinson Had it debuted just weeks earlier, the Arado Ar-234 jet could have revealed the D-Day invasion’s objectives and changed the war’s course. Lost Luftwaffe Airplanes By Walter J. Boyne Misguided...
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Aviation History Magazine
This is what the future of aviation looks like. Ten young adults—kids really, ages 16 to 20—all members of the Lakeland AeroClub, flying cross-country from Florida to Wisconsin in five antique airplanes for the Experimental Aircraft...
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Aviation History Magazine
Robert F. Dorr Can you Identify this early tilt rotor craft? Click here for the answer....
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Aviation History, Gear
The Bell XV-15 tiltrotor demonstrator was the much-flown progenitor of today’s Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey. The XV-15 could take off and land in confined spaces like a helicopter, but fly horizontally with the speed of a fixed-wing airplane....