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The Pilot Who Flew Again After Losing Both Legs in War
Most people would consider losing both legs a career-ending catastrophe, especially if that career involved flying fighter ...
From the airports that made aviation history to white elephants that had to be abandoned, here are some of the most ...
In December 1941, RAF Brewster Buffalo pilots launched into the skies over Malaya, only to be overwhelmed by waves of Japanese fighters. What began with early victories quickly spiraled into a ...
Defence secretary John Healey issued a stern warning to Vladimir Putin, after he said the Russian spy ship Yantar, operating on the edge of UK waters, directed lasers at pilots of surveillance RAF ...
The UK Defense Secretary said the Russian ship pointed lasers at a RAF P-8 Poseidon while on the edge of UK waters off Scotland. The Russian intelligence ship Yantar is currently sailing on the edge ...
It all started when Richard Tado received a call from his friend, 105-year-old World War II U.S. Army Air Corps pilot Edward “Bud” Berthold, that his bathroom had flooded. Tado, a U.S. Coast Guard ...
First used by the 1st Air Commando in World War II, the Sikorsky R-4 often fell short of its role in rescuing airmen downed in the mountains and rainforests of the China-Burma-India front but as the ...
Documentary of a 1997 trip by Ann Hobson Pilot, principal harpist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, to Johannesburg, South Africa, where she performs William Grant Still's Ennanga with the National ...
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