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Dan Cherry and Hong My met in the skies over North Vietnam in 1972, then again 36 years later.
May 2009
| By Dan Cherry
Aerospatiale's Concorde made its maiden flight 40 years ago this week, a half-hour hop out of Toulouse-Blagnac Airport on March 2, 1969.What heady days those were for aviation and space. Not a month earlier, the Boeing 747 had made its first flight. And a month and a half prior to that, the Saturn ...
March 05, 2009
| By Mike Klesius
Wondering who wrote the first description of flying over a landscape, I came across this charming passage by Jacques Charles, French scientist and inventor of the hydrogen balloon. Charles wasn't the first to fly—that honor goes to Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes, who fle...
March 04, 2009
| By Tony Reichhardt
A top Soviet-era test pilot talks about his favorite MiGs and his friend Yuri Gagarin.
January 22, 2009
| By Tony Reichhardt
The only thing that kept Canada from beating the U.S. to a jet airliner was Canada.
March 2009
| By Graham Chandler
There's more than one way to dump extra fuel before landing.
March 2009
| By Lieutenant Colonel Alfred (Joe) D’Amario, U.S. Air Force (ret.)
A California hot-rodder took on the feuding Arfons brothers in the 1960s.
March 2009
| By Preston Lerner
A visit to the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California is a tour through the history of air racing.
March 01, 2008
| By Linda Shiner
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