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John Magee, Pilot Poet, Author of 'High Flight': The Spitfire Pilot Who Wrote a Famous Poem on the Magic Of Flying

By: Feature Writer Helen Krasner

Elise Raymonde Deroche, First Ever Woman Pilot: Also Known as Baroness Raymonde de Laroche

By: Feature Writer Helen Krasner

The Avro Vulcan Bomber XH558 Flies Again: Awesome Delta Winged Nuclear Bomber Back in the Air

By: Elaine Findlay

The Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre: A Tribute to RAF Bomber Command of WWII

By: Jennifer Harrington

Aerocar First Successful Blend of Car and Plane: Five Flying-Car Models Earned Unique Place in Aviation History

By: John Wolcott

Nancy-Bird Walton, Famous Australian Aviatrix: 1930s Pilot Who Saved Lives in the Outback in Australia

By: Feature Writer Helen Krasner

Book Review: The 100 Greatest Women in Aviation: Biographies of Famous Female Pilots from the Dawn of Aviation Onward

By: Feature Writer Helen Krasner

Amelia Earhart: Famous Pilot who Disappeared: Aviation Record-Breaker who Vanished on her Last Flight

By: Feature Writer Helen Krasner

Jimmie Angel: Bush Pilot Who Found 'Angel Falls': Daredevil Flyer in Latin America During the 1920s and 30s.

By: Feature Writer Helen Krasner

Amy Johnson, Pioneer UK Aviatrix: First Woman to Fly From Britain to Australia, Many Other Records

By: Feature Writer Helen Krasner

Hanna Reitsch, German Aviatrix: Wartime Test Pilot, 1st Woman Helicopter Pilot, Awarded Iron Cross.

By: Feature Writer Helen Krasner

Russia Honors First Dog In Space: Laika the Dog Has Received Her Own Monument in Moscow

By: Laura Smith

The Hindenburg Disaster: The Truth Behind History's Most Famous Zeppelin's Creation and Crash

By: Isaac M. McPhee

Ornithopter Flying Machines: The Ancient Origins of an Invention

By: Isaac M. McPhee

Colonel Roscoe Turner: America's Greatest Showman Pilot

By: Laurie McLaughlin

The First Space Walks, 1965: Aleski Leonov and Ed White Were the First Men to Exit their Ships

By: John Crandall

The Birth of Airmail: On May 15th 1918 the Army Air Corps Began Carrying Mail

By: John Crandall

Robert Goddard, Rocket Pioneer: He Invented the First Liquid-Fueled Rockets

By: John Crandall

Sputnik I, Artificial Satellite: The first man made object to orbit the Earth.

By: John Crandall

Amelia Earhart's Disappearance: Int. Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery Finds Coast Guard Diary

By: Laurie McLaughlin

Bert Hinkler: Pioneer Airman: Australian pilot remembered as 'The boy from Bundeberg'

By: Murray McLeod

P.G Taylor: Aviation Pioneer: Air Ace and Trail Blazer

By: Murray McLeod

Werhner von Braun: Spent his life developing rocket technology.

By: John Crandall

Amelia Earhart (part 2): The Disappearance

By: John Crandall

Amelia Earhart (part 1): Female aviation pioneer

By: John Crandall

Apollo 13: A near disaster in space

By: John Crandall

Apollo 11: The First Men on the Moon

By: John Crandall

The Parachute After Leonardo: the slow advance of parachuting

By: John Crandall

The Sopwith Camel: Top fighter technology in the middle of WWI, it was outdated by the end of the war.

By: John Crandall

The Montgolfier Brothers' Balloon: Joseph and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invented the hot air balloon.

By: John Crandall

Leonardo and the Parachute: The great Renaissance genius also invented the parachute

By: John Crandall

Leonardo's Flying Machines: Helicopter, glider, and airplane with cabin

By: John Crandall

Leonardo Da Vinci: 'A bird is an instrument working according to a mathematical law. It lies within the power of man to make this instrument with all its motions'.

By: John Crandall

Hugo Junkers and the J 1: Hugo Junkers built the first all metal airplane, the J1

By: John Crandall

Louis Bleriot: a French aircraft pioneer

By: John Crandall

Charles Lindbergh: First to fly acrossed the Atlantic non-stop

By: John Crandall

The Wright Brothers: a fascinating story

By: John Crandall

Otto Lilienthal: The first man to fly his own aircraft sucessfully and repeatably

By: John Crandall

Sir George Cayley: He can fairly be called the father of the science of aeronautics

By: John Crandall

Super Sonic Travel: Breaking the Sound Barrier

By: John Crandall

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