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Front Page Hero, HistoryNet, Homepage Hero, Mag: Aviation History Hero
John Glenn’s World War II service led to his quest for a safer world The hero of the space race had never publicly shown his temper. But on May 4, 1974, the stoicism, the coolness, “the Right Stuff” that Tom Wolfe would chronicle a...
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HistoryNet, Mag: Aviation History Hero
Adam Sakowitz is a young man with a mission. The 25-year-old graduate student from Westbury, N.Y., is leading an effort to honor Senator John Glenn, who died on December 8, with a series of tangible memorials in Glenn’s home state of...
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Mag: Aviation History Hero
Naval air support played a crucial role in covering the withdrawal of U.N. forces from North Korea’s Chosin Reservoir. Snow squalls hovered over heaving whitecaps in the slate-gray Sea of Japan as six Vought F4U-4 Corsairs went...
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HistoryNet, Mag: Aviation History Hero
One horsepower versus 32 million horsepower. That’s the difference between the power generated by the average human being and the approximate power output of a Saturn V rocket’s F-1 first-stage engine. In this issue we cover both ends...
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Aviation History Magazine, Front Page Hero, HistoryNet, Homepage Hero, Mag: Aviation History Hero
Fighter pilot, test pilot, aerobatic pilot: Bob Hoover is considered the greatest of all by airmen worldwide It took Flight Officer Robert A. “Bob” Hoover more than two years to get into his first dogfight, and about five minutes to...
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Aviation History Magazine, Gear, Mag: Aviation History Aircraft, Mag: Aviation History Hero
From inauspicious biplane beginnings to near mastery of the skies above combat zones, UAVs have a rich history....
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Aviation History Magazine, HistoryNet, Homepage Hero, Mag: Aviation History Hero
Fifteen years ago on a sunny September day, civil aviation as we knew it changed forever. So too did the lives of all Americans, as the horrifying spectacle of airliners crashing into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon made it...
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Aviation History Magazine, HistoryNet, Homepage Hero, Mag: Aviation History Hero
The “Miracle on the Hudson” was no miracle; it was the culmination of a 35-year military and airline flying career Captain Chesley Sullenberger was the right person, in the right place, at the right time. His entire flying career had...
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HistoryNet, Mag: Aviation History Hero
At what point did it become morally acceptable to bomb civilians? Two articles in the September 2016 issue examine tipping points in the history of strategic bombing that led to widespread destruction in the Japanese homeland (“When Fire...
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HistoryNet, Mag: Aviation History Hero
The first low-level B-29 raid on Tokyo introduced a terrifying new tactic in the war against Japan On the night of March 9-10, 1945, U.S. Twentieth Air Force B-29s burned down 7 percent of Tokyo and killed some 85,000 people. Probably no...
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Aviation History Magazine, Mag: Aviation History Hero
Heinkel produced one of the most innovative night fighters of World War II, but Nazi bureaucrats repeatedly shot it down There were many night fighters in World War II, but only two were designed from the ground up to play in the dark: the...
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Aviation History Magazine
The Curtiss C-46 filled a niche during World War II for a high-altitude heavy hauler capable of operating from rough airstrips in far-flung locales They called it the Curtiss Calamity, Ol’ Dumbo, the Flying Whale and, more recently, Miss...
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Aviation History Magazine
Throughout aviation history, pilots have strived to emulate birds, the world’s most adept fliers. In the process, they’ve sought to safely share the skies with our feathered friends by avoiding avian encounters and collisions. Because...
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Aviation History Magazine
What accounts for our endless fascination with vertical takeoff and landing? If you’re of a certain age and followed aerospace developments in the late 1950s and 1960s, you witnessed an endless procession of VTOL projects that seemed to...
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Aviation History Magazine
Dick Merrill repeatedly gambled his life while barnstorming, delivering airmail, conquering the Atlantic, flying the Himalayas and pioneering airline routes, but he always came out with a winning hand Among Henry Tyndall “Dick”...
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Aviation History Magazine
These 10 great aerial rescues demonstrate that aircraft serve a far nobler purpose than hauling passengers and cargo or dealing death from the skies Aircraft quickly became weapons of war, but less expected was their role as rescuers....