Aviation History

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In our January 2016 feature “Angels of Mercy” (see historynet.com/angels-of-mercy.htm), contributing editor Stephan Wilkinson wrote, “These 10 great aerial rescues demonstrate that aircraft serve a far nobler purpose than hauling passengers and cargo

Model Airplane News

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This ⅛-scale scratch-built model is the same type of plane Amelia Earhart was flying when she disappeared in 1937. Mark shares that he built the plane for his club’s winter building contest, starting by enlarging plans from an image he found online.

Aero Magazine International

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The accident with Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 has generated world shock, especially after Iran's government has assumed that its anti aircraft defense system has downed the Boeing 737-800 that took off from Tehran, killing all 173 peo

Popular Science

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That's akin to a medium-sized manned cargo plane. TB-001 This twin-engine, dual-tail MALE (medium altitude, long endurance) attack drone will be able to carry about a ton of payload. WeChat, via by78 China's drone newcomer Tengoen Technology (also sp

Aviation History

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As we watched the aircraft cruise north, we noticed a thin trail of smoke coming from the tail. The smoke became thicker as the aircraft banked to the west, the pilot probably wanting to return to the Cleveland airport. As the smoking aircraft began

Who Do You Think You Are?

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ScotlandsPeople (scotlandspeople. gov.uk) has added 1,000 more maps and plans to its online collection. The maps date from the mid-16th to the mid-20th century. Among the newly added records are examples by notable Scottish surveyors and engineers, i

Model Airplane News

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The ninth annual Long Island Skyhawks’ (LISH) Dawn Patrol was a very successful event. Even though Covid-19 required social distancing at the flying field, the 2020 WW I get together went off without a hitch. The club members are serious giant scale

Model Airplane News

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During World War I, French fighter pilot Dieudonné Costes fought in countless dogfights with enemy planes. Timing was essential to victory, and the world’s first multifunction wristwatches forever changed air combat. They allowed pilots to execute co

NPR

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In Our Daily Breather, we ask artists to recommend ways to find calm in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. Jimmy Webb has been building model airplanes, as he did as a child with his father.

Plane & Pilot

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In a 35-mm transparency I only recently discovered in my library, there’s an image of a red-and-white Mooney M20C in front of a hangar with an older couple standing in front of it. The best guess I’ve got is that it’s the couple who sold N5746Q to my

The Guardian

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Marine corps pilots took photos and read books while flying, according to a US military investigation

Flying

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It was my first flying job—the one you dreamed about having all your life. The one for which you strove, saved and worked so hard, and it was finally real. I had to leave my native New Zealand and move to the Australian Outback to get it, but that ju

Flight Journal

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A U.S. Marine Corps 4th Reserve squadron, the Snipers are based at MCAS Yuma, Arizona. The installation hosts WTI (Weapons Tactics Instructors) major exercises twice a year, plus they are instrumental in supporting USMC F/A-18 training scenarios, inc

American History

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In the Israeli fight for independence, American volunteers were key to the air war. Until late 1947, the Jewish state-in-the-making had few pilots and only a handful of small planes. Al Schwimmer, a Trans-World Airlines flight engineer, got into the

Model Airplane News

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Jeff Fiscus, Portsmouth, Rhode Island Jeff designed and scratch-built this unusual scale model of the 1930s U.S. Navy biplane. The 44-inch-span aircraft has an electric power system and sports a Williams Brothers dummy engine, wheels, and pilot figur

Airways Magazine

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PEOPLE OFTEN ask me, “What is it like to be flying during COVID-19?” I usually tell them how terrible it is. Airports and aircraft are empty, and the layovers are lonely and miserable. However, the actual ‘flying’ is the greatest gift I could be give

Edge

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If, like Luke Skywalker, you trust the Force more than your targeting computer, you can disable the game’s fairly unobtrusive HUD and try to navigate using cockpit instruments alone. Just be aware that in VR, the lower resolution makes it trickier to

Australian Flying

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Alot of the stories in this edition were probably penned from a hotel near or around Avalon, or if not a hotel, the comfort of the conference centre or the exhibition halls. This one is no different, although it was penned from the RAAus tent, which

Plane & Pilot

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For a kid who didn’t travel much at a young age, I got bitten by wanderlust early on. Every summer, my dad’s parents loaded up their red Econoline van, turned right onto the westbound lanes of the highway, and disappeared for a month or so. Shortly a

Australian Flying

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Kathy Mexted reports. Working at the Narrabri airport as a refueller in the mid-80s, a couple of Corby Starlets got Dan Compton’s imagination going. How great would it be to build an affordable little sport aircraft? The yearning to own his own aerop

Literary Hub

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I was ten years old when I fell in love with flying. I remember the day, the hour, the very airplane—an AV-8A Harrier. Stuck in a fifth-grade science classroom, perpetually bored and staring out windows, I was not expecting a jet to zoom low and fast

Le Grand Mag

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Over the past decade, Aurora has collaborated with Boeing on the rapid prototyping of innovative aircraft and structural assemblies for military and commercial applications. Now as an independent subsidiary of Boeing, Aurora’s innovation is combined

Flying

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There are folks who collect date nails. There is even a publication dedicated to the hobby called Date Nails. What, one might ask, are date nails? These are the 2-inch little fellows which the railroad drove into each of their crossties. There are ap

Model Airplane News

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Held in Lakeland, Florida, the annual Florida Jets is a prime event to see the latest in jet technology and releases, and this year, the 22nd, was no exception. Turbine or electric, RC jet aircraft keep getting bigger and more impressive, and highlig

History of War

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Writer: Stuart Hadaway Publisher: Shire Publications Price: £8.99 Anyone familiar with Shire Publications will know what to expect from this slim volume. British Airfields of the Second World War is the usual tightly focussed, well-illustrated work,

Model Airplane News

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As people have more time during quarantine, it is prime time for newbies to get into RC. This is especially true for kids. When flying remote control aircraft as a beginner, it is helpful to have an experienced pilot by your side. However, that may n

Adirondack Life

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Most summer mornings on Piseco Lake, you’ll hear only natural sounds: lapping waves, twittering birds, the occasional plop-plop of a leaping fish. But on the penultimate Saturday of every August, you’ll hear repetitive, low rumbling as plane after pl

Model Airplane News

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Warbird Pilots is constantly improving and expanding its line of historically accurate scale figures. Now available in several sizes, each figure features authentic clothing and accessories for the time period, and is fully posable. The British/Frenc

Model Airplane News

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Art & Brian Irwin, Calgary, Canada Brothers Art and Brian decided to build 1/3-scale Vailly Aviation WW I biplanes in 2017 for their club’s Battle of Britain fun-fly on Remembrance Day to honor Canadian WW I pilots Captain Fred McCall and Captain Bil

Plane & Pilot

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“How old are these oil cooler hoses?” It was a simple enough question, posed by my inspector as we worked our way through the Mooney’s annual inspection. He sat on the tailgate of his truck, flipping pages of the aircraft’s logbooks, trying to find a