Aviation World, History & Legends
In the 1960s, the United States built a space station whose true purpose was so secret that the men chosen to fly it could not tell their own families what they did. The cover story was research — testing whether astronauts could be useful in orbit. The reality...
Aviation World, History & Legends
For as long as there have been cars and aeroplanes, people have wanted to combine them. Almost everyone who tried, failed. But one man actually did it: he built a flying car that flew, that drove, that carried passengers, and that a government safety board certified...
Aviation World, History & Legends
In 1934, an Australian chocolate millionaire offered a fortune to whoever could fly fastest from England to Melbourne — nearly 11,000 miles across deserts, jungles and oceans. Airliners of the day could not come close. So de Havilland built something entirely...
Aviation World, History & Legends
You have almost certainly seen this crash, even if you have never heard of the aircraft. A stubby, wingless machine tumbles end over end across a desert lakebed, throwing up a cloud of dust, and comes to rest upside down. For millions of people, that few seconds of...
Aviation World, History & Legends, Military Aviation
It looked like something bolted together in a shed: an open cockpit, fixed landing gear, a wing borrowed from a light aircraft. But the ungainly little Bell X-14 could do something almost nothing else in 1957 could — rise straight up off the ground, hover, tip...
Aviation World, History & Legends
On a clear summer morning in 1956, two airliners climbed out of Los Angeles minutes apart, each carrying dozens of people east across the desert. Somewhere over the Grand Canyon, in a sky so vast it should have held them both a thousand times over, they flew into each...
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