Aviation History - March 2016 USA

March 2016 AH 39 LEFT: INTERFOTO/ALAMY; ABOVE: COLLECTION SHAA; TOP RIGHT: ©CHRONICLE/ALAMY; BOTTOM RIGHT: MARY EVANS PICTURE LI ...

40 AH march 2016 Air Heroes.” It thundered: “What I want to know is why an Englishman whose hobby is bringing down sky Huns in b ...

March 2016 AH 41 ABOVE LEFT: DAILY MAIL ; LEFT: ©WORLDPHOTOS/ALAMY; RIGHT: U.S. AIR FORCE and individuality, jeopardiz- ing the ...

42 AH march 2016 TRAVELING LIGHT Dick Merrill models his summer flying gear during his airmail days in the late 1920s. ...

PHOTOS: XXX XXXXXXX March 2016 AH 43 DICK MERRILL REPEATEDLY GAMBLED HIS LIFE WHILE BARNSTORMING, DELIVERING AIRMAIL, CONQUERING ...

4444 AHAH march 2016march 2016 So many equally daring young pilots died barn- [\WZUQVOWZ\ZaQVO\WÆa\PMIQZUIQTWZXI[[MVOMZ[ ...

March 2016March 2016 AHAH 4545 PREVIOUS PAGES: (LEFT) VIRGINIA AVIATION MUSEUM; (RIGHT) AP PHOTO; THESE PAGES: VIRGINIA AVIATION ...

4646 AHAH march 2016march 2016 treacherous undertaking. One night, with an almost empty fuel tank, he had to roll the aircraft Q ...

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4848 AHAH march 2016march 2016 called Atlantic Flight (Dick promptly lost his share at Santa Anita racetrack.) O vershadowed by ...

March 2016March 2016 AHAH 4949 LEFT: (TOP) AKG-IMAGES-IMAGNO; (BOTTOM) HISTORYNET ARCHIVE; RIGHT PHOTOS: VIRGINIA AVIATION MUSEU ...

50 AH march 2016 BRITISH EFFORTS TO GARNER INTERNATIONAL PRESTIGE WITH RECORD LONG-DISTANCE FLIGHTS DURING THE INTERWAR YEARS TO ...

March 2016 AH 51 LONG RANGER Fairey’s first Long Range Monoplane, J9479, awaits testing at Farnborough. ...

52 AH march 2016 ALL PHOTOS: RAF MUSEUM, HENDON N ear nightfall on December 17, 1929, an Arab horseman trav- eling over the moun ...

March 2016 AH 53 ter Gamecocks. As a Sopwith Camel pilot in World War I, he had scored 11 victories. It was originally intended ...

54 AH march 2016 long-distance record, with the same crew. Meanwhile, between September 27 and 29, 1929, the Breguet 19 Point d’ ...

March 2016 AH 55 ILLUSTRATION: STEVE KARP well to Abu Sueir, 2,857 miles in 31 hours. They returned on December 13 to an ignomin ...

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March 2016 AH 57 ABOVE LEFT: U.S. NAVY SONIC WIND The Story of John Paul Stapp and How a Renegade Doctor Became the Fastest Man ...

We’ve all had nights when we just can’t lie down in bed and sleep, whether it’s from heartburn, cardiac problems, hip or back ac ...