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Early Attempt At Human Flight Came 900 Years Before The Wright Brothers. It Did Not End Well
In 1903, the Wright brothers made the first sustained human flight, flying the first plane above Kitty Hawk, North Carolina ...
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Wings of Freedom: History of Army Aviation in Dale County
OZARK-How the “Home of Army Aviation” came to be in Dale County was the focus of the Dale County Council of the Arts and ...
The Air Force once almost nuked the Moon
Project A119 was a Cold War-era response to Sputnik, with the goal of using a nuclear explosion in space to scare the Soviets ...
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'Unfaltering Courage': True story of WWII gunner Ray Vachon of Somersworth
"More than a third of the 18,000 B-24 bombers produced during World War II were shot down, and most air crewmen did not ...
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First World War airmen from New Brunswick were pioneers of air warfare
FREDERICTON — When pilots took to the air for combat during the First World War, it had been less than 15 years since the Wright brothers' famous first flight in 1903 ... New Brunswick Airmen in the ...