The SR-71 Flight That Landed Before It Took Off — And Why No Airliner Could Repeat It
How an SR-71 Blackbird flew from Okinawa to California and landed 17.5 hours before it departed — and why no c...
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Project Stargazer: The 1962 balloon flight that took a telescope to the edge of space
In 1962 Project Stargazer flew a crewed telescope to 86,000 feet by balloon above New Mexico. The story of the...
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The mechanic who helped build the Spirit of St. Louis — then flew 'wrong way' to Ireland
How Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a patched-up Curtiss Robin from New York to Dublin in 1938 and charmed t...
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Before the V-22 Osprey: the 1960s Curtiss-Wright tiltrotors that paved the way
How Curtiss-Wright's forgotten X-100 and X-19 tiltrotors of the 1960s laid the groundwork for the V-22 Osprey...
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Six Decades of Saab Fighter Jets in One Sky: What Malmen's Centenary Airshow Showed
Sweden's Air Force centenary airshow at Malmen gathered nearly every Saab fighter ever built — from the Tunnan...
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Bristol's 'Flying Palace' of 1920: The 14-Seat Airliner That Never Flew a Single Fare-Paying Passenger
The Bristol Pullman of 1920 wowed London with a luxury 14-seat cabin but never flew a paying passenger. The st...
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Why Copa Airlines Still Flies a Livery That Looks Like Vintage Continental
Copa Airlines still flies a livery copied from Continental in 1999. Here's why it never adopted United's Sky B...
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The Trident Beat Boeing's 727 Into The Air — And Still Lost 1,832 To 117
The Hawker Siddeley Trident flew first and pioneered autoland, but Boeing's 727 outsold it 1,832 to 117. How o...
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The B-36 Peacemaker: America's Forgotten Nuclear Giant That Lasted Just 11 Years
How the B-36 Peacemaker, America's first intercontinental nuclear bomber, went from Cold War centrepiece to sc...
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Douglas DC-7: Where To See America's Last Great Piston Airliner
The Douglas DC-7 was America's last piston-engine airliner. Where to see surviving examples at the Delta Fligh...
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Why Cabin Crew Look So Different In Asia Versus The US — It's Not What Twitter Thinks
US airlines once sold sex appeal too. Deregulation, discrimination law and unions changed the cabin — while As...
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The Quiet Airbus Twinjet That Unlocked Transatlantic Flying For Everyone
How the Airbus A310-300, with just 255 built, earned 180-minute ETOPS and opened the North Atlantic to twin-en...
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