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In 1916, eight Curtiss biplanes from the U.S. Army’s 1st Aero Squadron—the country’s entire air force—flew into Mexico for their first military action.
March 19, 2009
| By Tony Reichhardt
You don’t see much bipartisanship in Washington these days, but yesterday all 17 female members of the U.S. Senate, Democrats and Republicans alike, introduced a bill (S. 614) to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs. The medal, previously given to groups...
March 18, 2009
| By Tony Reichhardt
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.)
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