Aviation World, History & Legends
Share this story 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...
Aviation World, History & Legends
Share this story 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...
Aviation World, History & Legends
Share this story 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...
Aviation World, History & Legends, Military Aviation
Share this story 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...
Aviation World, History & Legends
Share this story 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,...
Aviation World, History & Legends
Share this story Twenty minutes out of Memphis, First Officer Jim Tucker heard a sound he had never heard on an aeroplane: a metallic ring, again and again. It was a claw hammer coming down on the skull of his flight engineer. In the next few seconds a man would try...
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