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One of the most beautiful and frequent dreams is to be able to fly. Looking up into the sky and imagining that you are in an airplane is soothing. Today, you have the opportunity to […]
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On November 1, 1954, the United States Air Force begins to retire the Boeing B-29 Superfortress from service. In the above photograph, B-29A-20-BN 42-94012 is at […]
by Jean Pierre Desailly At no other chateau in all of France could you find a former Soviet helicopter parked on the back lawn. The same could be said for a 1970s hovercraft… and a […]
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 26, 1940, at Mines Field, Los Angeles, California (now, Los Angeles International Airport), free-lance test pilot Vance Breese took the prototype North American Aviation […]
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 24, 2003, at 4:05 p.m. BST, the final commercial flight of the British Airways Concorde came to an end with the landing of G-BOAG […]
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 24, 1953, at Edwards Air Force Base, California, Richard Lowe Johnson, Chief Test Pilot for the Convair Division of the General Dynamics Corporation, took […]
Your Stories is a collection of memories sent by our readers and readopted as articles for this website. If you are interested in sharing your memories and stories with us please contact us HERE. by […]
Maverick exceeded Mach 10 when he piloted a conceptual hypersonic aircraft, known as Darkstar, designed by the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® team in the recent Top Gun: Maverick film. Darkstar’s capabilities met Maverick’s “need for […]
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 21, 1947, at Northrop Field, Hawthorne, California, Northrop Corporation Chief Test Pilot Max R. Stanley took off in the first YB-49, 42-102367, and flew […]
By Stephen Chapis Ask any average aviation enthusiast to name a handful of X-Planes and they are likely to rattle off the X-1, X-15, and perhaps the X-24A/B. Some of the more learned may add […]
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