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Online Poll: The People's Choice

Your chance to pick the "Best of the Best".

  • By The Editors
  • Air & Space Magazine, August 01, 2007

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    Which one of six vintage aircraft gets your vote for “Best of the Best?”

    Read their stories (“And The Winner Is…”) in our August 2007 issue, then vote for your favorite in our online poll. The airplanes are appearing at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s 2007 AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, under the auspices of the National Aviation Heritage Invitational, sponsored by Rolls-Royce North America, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, the National Aviation Hall of Fame, and the Reno Air Racing Foundation.

    Even if you can’t be in Oshkosh, you can still cast your vote!

    Which one of six vintage aircraft gets your vote for “Best of the Best?”

    Read their stories (“And The Winner Is…”) in our August 2007 issue, then vote for your favorite in our online poll. The airplanes are appearing at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s 2007 AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, under the auspices of the National Aviation Heritage Invitational, sponsored by Rolls-Royce North America, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, the National Aviation Hall of Fame, and the Reno Air Racing Foundation.

    Even if you can’t be in Oshkosh, you can still cast your vote!


     
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