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Top 5: female military pilots who made history and broke records

Many female pilots have broken several aviation records. One of them is Evelyn Bryan Johnson, a colonel in the Civil...
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Top 5: The Heaviest Bombers Used In WWII

What does (the Second World) war comprise of? If we are to study  R.N. Currey’s war poems, we know that...
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Tupolev Tu-144 – The Soviet Concorde: Why the Supersonic Jet Failed?

The name is Tupolev Tu-144. In Russian, you’d call it Туполев Ту-144. The NATO reporting name for the Tu-144 is...
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What Will Happen When The World’s Airlines Run Out Of Flight Numbers?

It is apparently ironical that despite the formualtor of the theory of infinity claiming that the essence of mathematics lay...
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What is a Ground Stop At An Airport?

When smoke from Canada’s wildfires in 2023 affected the visibility of US airspace, operations at laGuardia Airport came to a...
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What is a deadhead pilot and what are the rules for them?

Any person who has watched the movie “Catch Me If You Can” (or read the book of the same title)...
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How Airlines Are Named: Different approaches

How do we make sense of Bark Air, the airline which is “the world’s first air travel experience designed specifically...
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What Was Airfone & Why Did It Become Obsolete?

Airfone’s history is one where a potentially groundbreaking air-ground radiotelephone that could have revolutionized in-flight communication gets supplanted by something...
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How Common & Dangerous Are Bird Strikes In US Aviation?

On January 15th, 2009, when a U.S Airline plane, Airbus A320-214 scheduled to take off from New York City to...
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