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The Faroe Islands are the only country that celebrates their World War II occupation
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On 8 March, 1910 Raymonde de Laroche became the world's first licensed female pilot
I don't really have any cool articles about de Laroche besides the Wikipedia page on her, but it is quite good and a shortish read, so very worthwhile. There is also this short article from the...
I don't really have any cool articles about de Laroche besides the Wikipedia page on her, but it is quite good and a shortish read, so very worthwhile. There is also this short article from the University of Houston, complete with a 3-minute audio version.
The week of 8 March is also International Women of Aviation Week, celebrating all the female aviators (people are getting away from using gender-specific words like aviatrix that weren't necessary in English anyway), including Jacqueline Cochran, the wartime head of Women Airforce Service Pilots in the U.S. and who would go on to be the first woman to break the sound barrier; Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman, the first African-American and Native American woman aviator and presumably the first licensed female pilot of mixed race to participate in air races and barnstorming stunt shows across the U.S. and Europe; Leah Hing, the first Chinese-American female pilot and who started her own flight school after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931; among many other women past and present who are earning their pilot's license.
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Building the worst World War II air force - terrible aircraft and how to sell them (feat. @AnimarchyHistory)
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Divers find remains of Finnish World War II plane that was shot down by Moscow with a US diplomat aboard
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How to build 300,000 airplanes in five years
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B-17 Flying Fortress | Units of History
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Mennonites are pious Christians who eschew much of the modern world. But in Mexico even they have not escaped the pull of the drug cartels.
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Soviet flying aircraft carriers were ingenious
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Eighty year anniversary of a speed record build of a WW2 bomber
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How well suited is Sweden's Saab JAS 39 Gripen and their dispersal operations in NATO's air forces?
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The world's greatest fighter jet: The F-15 Eagle
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What happened to flying wings?
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Landseaire, the crazy Catalina flying camper of the 1950s
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A working flight simulator, no computers necessary
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The world’s fastest bomber: The XB-70 Valkyrie
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The jet that terrified the West: The MiG-25 Foxbat
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Part of a Spitfire which was shot down over Norway during World War II has gone on display after being restored
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My ex-father-in-law, the Japanese radical who opposed Narita Airport
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The strangest aircraft ever built: The Soviet Union's VVA-14
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ValuJet Flight 592
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Why this enormous plane really exists: The An-225 Mriya
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A plane without wings: The story of the C.450 Coléoptère
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This plane tried to do the impossible: The Caproni Transaereo
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The farmer that lives in the middle of Tokyo Narita Airport
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The insane engineering of the A-10 Warthog
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The search for DB Cooper
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Decades-old photography from the U-2 spy program now offers a time machine to see traces of the historical and ancient past
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What happened to giant flying boats? Saunders-Roe Princess story
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How this abandoned mining town in Greenland helped win World War II
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What happened to giant Ekranoplans?
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Mount Erebus disaster: The plane crash that changed New Zealand
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Inside Robert Ballard's search for Amelia Earhart’s airplane
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The Soviet superplane that rattled America
6 votes