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by Mark Roberts
On May 8, 1919 Three Navy--Curtiss flying boats set out to fly the same ocean. Just one made it across.
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by Brian Nicklas
On Saturday, June 4th 1927, a mere two weeks after Charles A. Lindbergh had changed the world, a Bellanca WB-2 monoplane christened “Columbia” took off on what was to be the second non-stop Trans-Atlantic airplane flight -- and the first-ever passenger carrying flight to cross the great ocean. But for several twists of fate, this aircraft could have been the first to do both...
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by Brian Nicklas
In early July 1925, new purpose-built airplanes were required to replace the modified military de Havilland DH-4 aircraft, which had provided a start for flying mail.
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by Brian Nicklas
Among the first airframes to choose from as the jet airliner started to become an accepted mode of transportation, were the de Havilland DH 106 the Douglas DC-8, Convair 880 and the Boeing 707.
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by Brian Nicklas
Space-shots from Florida's Cape Canaveral began 50 years ago on July 23rd with the flight of Bumper 8.
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by Brian Nicklas
On August 1, 1946, Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) was born.
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by Brian Nicklas
On Aug 16, 1960, a redheaded Air Force test pilot by the name of Joseph Kittinger took a *very* long step and landed squarely in the record book.
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by Brian Nicklas
When the sun set on this airfield in Marienehe, Germany, on August 27, 1939 turbojet power had propelled an aircraft aloft for the first time, literally days before the start of World War Two.
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by Brian Nicklas
'The Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin.' So stated Sir Winston Churchill on June 18, 1940.
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by Brian Nicklas
Although a more infamous airship was to follow, perhaps the most famous airship was the Graf Zeppelin, which launched on September 18, 1928.
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by Brian Nicklas
September 24, on this morning in 1929, Jimmy Doolittle saw an opportunity in the gray scene in front of him at Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York.
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by Brian Nicklas
Late in the evening of October 4, 1957, a slightly modified ICBM left a launch pad in Russia.
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by Brian Nicklas
A powered, heavier-than-air craft succeeded in taking off from the ground on October 9, 1890 -- thirteen years before the brothers Wright took their flight.
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by Brian Nicklas
October 17, 1922 a converted coal supply ship accepted a landing from a Navy biplane and carrier aviation in the United States was born.
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by Brian Nicklas
The flight made on October 24, 1968, was number 199, and the last for the incredible
North American Aviation, X-15
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by Brian Nicklas
On November 1, 1955 a United Air Lines Douglas DC-6B exploded under un-natural circumstances that would later define the event as a dreadful “first.”
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by Brian Nicklas
On November 11, 1956 three men took the flightdeck of the
Convair B-58 Hustler for the first flight of the supersonic bomber.
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by Brian Nicklas
In Spain, on November 15, 1922, Juan de la Cierva was granted a patent that led to the birth of the helicopter.
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by Brian Nicklas
Built in secret -- and without a government contract -- the de Havilland DH 98 Mosquito prototype made its first flight from Hatfield, England on November 25, 1940.
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by Brian Nicklas
Thomas Selfridge, a Lieutenant in the United States Army, found himself in Canada on December 6, 1907 -- more important, he found himself volunteering to fly.
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by Brian Nicklas
If you believe that America is the greatest country in the world, it’s a fine season to recall the reasons why. These men are some of them...
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by Brian Nicklas
On December 22, 1930 a new aircraft lifted into the skies and immediately overshadowed the work being done anywhere else in the world.
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by Brian Nicklas
While many credit Igor Sikorsky for paving the way to the successful helicopter, Sikorsky's products and progeny are not the only craft capable of making VTOL flight and indeed another had its beginnings this week in 1942.
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by Brian Nicklas
Fewer than ten percent of licensed pilots are women and this week we look at one of the pioneers -- as a success and a tragedy.
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by Jeff Pardo
Back in aviation's formative years, spins were widely accepted as being non-habit forming -- once caught in a spin, there was no known way out -- until...
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by Paul A. Craig
In 1993 the current airspace system that uses the alphabet to designate the different airspace types went into effect, replacing all the previous airspace designations, but one.
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by Thomas Turner
Get set for another "one year since 9/11" retrospective … but this time, from the point of view of a pilot.
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by Reader Submission
Sunday March 30, Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago sent a task force to Meigs field -- the lovely airport on the lake -- and had the runway destroyed. The facility handled some 1,500 instrument flights per month and provided some relief to air traffic controllers handling the already overwhelmed O'Hare airspace.
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by Thomas Turner
This Centennial of Flight finds me grateful to the Wrights for their ability to attack dangerous trial-and-error with analytical science and ultimately open the door to the world of flight we so enjoy. It was a longer road than most might imagine, full of fascinating history few people know...
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by Thomas Turner
We all know the story of the two bicycle-shop brothers from Ohio who built and flew the first successful heavier-than-air aircraft from the dunes of North Carolina on December 17, 1903. From our vantage point one century later, though, many of us fail to appreciate the meticulous work that led to the dawn of aviation ... much of it done not by the Wrights themselves, but those who had come before. Last week we learned just a bit about Sir George Caley, William Sanford Henson, Felix Du Temple and more. This week it's on to more familiar names...
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by Thomas Turner
We all know the story of how two bicycle-shop brothers from Ohio built and flew the first successful heavier-than-air aircraft from the dunes of North Carolina on December 17, 1903. Last time we looked at the path of science and imagination that created the atmosphere in which the Wright Brothers began their work. This time we'll look at how the Wrights adapted that experience to finally conquer the air.
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by Thomas Turner
Success! After years of experimentation, building on the work of countless others yet furthering the science of aeronautics well beyond any others before them, Wilbur and Orville Wright had solved the elusive problem of aircraft control in gliding flight. The ultimate prize, however, was to combine that control with power to go when, where and however long they wished. The Wright Brothers needed an engine.
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by Thomas Turner
When I was a kid I was always looking to the skies. One of my earliest memories is seeing the Goodyear Blimp float past my dining-room window. Absolutely guaranteed to make my youthful heart race was the silhouette of a pair of wings, stacked around a single airframe -- a biplane, what my father called, in his transplanted West Virginia drawl, a "double-winger."
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by Jeff Pardo
The soul of aviation probably has no greater Mecca than the dunes of Kill Devil Hills, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Above these once shifting and untamed sands, now resting beneath 425 manicured acres of grass, stands a hallowed shaft of granite, over ninety feet high and crowning one central dune, also stabilized under a carpet of green. The striking memorial, a 60-foot high triangular pylon ornamented with outspread wings in bas-relief, stands like some colossal gnomon, presiding over both its own circular hill and the open spaces beyond. These grounds embrace the Wright Brothers' first four successful powered flights, as well as most of their earlier glider experiments. Since it was established by Congress in 1927 to commemorate their achievement, generations have flocked to the Wright Brothers National Memorial. Now, it was my turn.
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