Aviation History - March 2016 USA

HistoryNet.com MARCH 2016 NO JOKE: POLISH JET-POWERED BIPLANE CROP-DUSTER AVIATION HISTORY FIVE YEARS IN THE AIR: WORLD’S LUCKIE ...

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2 AH march 2016 MARCH 2016 5 MAILBAG 6 BRIEFING 12 EXTREMES Built for crop-dusting, the PZL Mielec M-15 was anything but pretty. ...

Original sketches found at the Smithsonian Imagine that you were examining artifacts in the Smithsonian Institution and you foun ...

4 AH MARCH 2016 Dornier’s VTOL Jet Transport The Do-31 showed great promise as a versatile vertical troop transport, but the pro ...

mailbag March 2016 AH 5 Liberator Love The story on the famous Consolidated B-24 [“Un- loved Liberator,” January] was brilliant ...

6 AH march 2016 Cessna’s Military Trainer M ost big-dollar warbirds make cramped, noisy, expensive and sometimes dan- gerous cro ...

March 2016 AH 7 OPPOSITE PHOTOS: STEVE DUNN; RIGHT: (TOP) ALBANESEBRANDING.COM; (BOTTOM) ©DAVID COLE/ALAMY 145-hp carbureted Lyc ...

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BRIEFING 10 AH march 2016 E ver since Charles A. Lindbergh made it famous in 1927, there have been numerous reproductions and re ...

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12 AH march 2016 Extremes P oland boasts the only production jet biplane in aviation history, and that’s no joke. As boasts go, ...

March 2016 AH 13 POLISH AVIATION MUSEUM, KRAKOW; ILLUSTRATION: STEVE KARP PZL MIELEC M-15 SPECIFICATIONS PZL Mielec M-15 took to ...

14 AH march 2016 Lady Heath IRELAND’S PIONEERING FEMALE FLIER BATTLED CHAUVINISM TO EARN HER PLACE IN THE SKY, BUT HER ACCOMPLIS ...

March 2016 AH 15 LEFT: AKG-IMAGES/TT NEWS AGENCY; RIGHT: THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES original Lady Lindy, after Ear ...

16 AH march 2016 restored L ieutenant Colonel Art Nalls retired from the U.S. Marine Corps after a career spanning two decades a ...

March 2016 AH 17 PHOTOS: GUY ACETO The world’s only civilian- owned harrier jump jet was big news in the aviation community. Sha ...

NASA LANGLEY/DAVID C. BOWMAN electric ascent NASA’s GL-10 makes a vertical takeoff. The electric-powered aircraft has a 10-foot ...