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Dornier’s VTOL Jet Transport
The Do-31 showed great promise as a
versatile vertical troop transport, but the
project was canceled in 1970 due to lack
of funding.Irish Ace in the RAF
Captain Edward “Mick” Mannock became
the RAF’s second-ranking ace in World
War I, and is also remembered as an
inspiring leader.The Charmed Life of
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker
America’s ace of aces during World War I
went on to head Eastern Air Lines.Follow our step-by-step instructions to build
this issue’s “Modeling” project: a Hawker
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