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Pancho Barnes: The Most Unladylike Aviatrix in History

Pancho Barnes Lived Her Life Throttle to the Firewall – and Wouldn’t Have it Any Other Way On July 22, 1901, Florence Leontine Lowe was born to Florence Mae Dobbins and Thaddeus Lowe, Jr...

Edwin Albert Link: Inventor of the First Flight Simulator

Edwin Albert Link Decided Flight Training Was Too Expensive and Changed Aviation Forever with the Link Trainer Edwin Albert Link was born on July 26, 1904, in Huntington, Indiana. His family soon...

The Rise of the Incredible Skycrane

Aerial construction ain’t easy, but the skycrane helps. Need to move a piece of extremely heavy cargo but don’t have a runway for a cargo plane? Or perhaps you need to perform precision deployment of...

Jack Northrop: A Driving and Innovative Force In Aviation Design

John Knudsen “Jack” Northrop Fought Tooth and Nail for His Company, and the Flying Wing Concept Jack Northrop was born in Newark, New Jersey to Charles Northrop, Jr. and Helen Northrop on November 10...

Flight Lesson Journal: First Flight in a Low Wing and Embracing the Wind

A Student Pilot Compares a Low Wing Piper Cherokee to a High Wing Cessna Skyhawk and Learns Ground Reference Maneuvers in Mountain Turbulence February 14th...

Do Men or Women Make Better Pilots?

Taking a look at chicks vs roosters in the cockpit, and what makes a better pilot. The Answer I wasn’t searching for the answer because I really didn’t think there was one. I discovered it by chance...

The Past and Future of the Pulse Jet

What’s that annoying buzzing sound? That’s a pulse jet. What if a jet engine could have no moving parts? Aviation history enthusiasts will fondly recall the pulse jet (or pulsejet) engine...

Harriet Quimby: Aviation Pioneer and Trailblazing Icon For Female Pilots

Harriet Quimby was the first licensed American female pilot, first female pilot to fly at night, and first female pilot to fly across the English Channel. It’s not often that the world is granted the...

The Korea Files 5: Four Against Seventy Seemed a Bit Ridiculous.

Once you get into a dogfight, it seems as though there are aircraft everywhere going in different directions. This article marks the fifth story from Bill’s Korea Files. Click here to read part...