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Not Much More Than a Glider
This Week’s Hints to help you along: Set three world records between 1927 and 1930 — none for speed. Featured a 3-cylinder radial engine with just 18 hp. Seen in the skies over Italy and later over the Baltics and Sweden. Designed to weigh in at less than 500 lbs! So do you know what [...]
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The Cigarette Club
Published March 17, 2015 By Thomas C. Van Hare These days, it seems that the only connection between cigarettes and aviation are signs in aircraft lavatories reading, “NO SMOKING”. Smoke detectors are fitted to enforce the rule. In fact, almost every airline today flies with a clear No Smoking policy. Even from the early [...]
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Hawaii to New Jersey for $75
Published March 9, 2015 By Thomas Van Hare On March 7 and 8, 1949, former USAAF pilot Captain William P. “Bill” Odom flew a V-tailed Beech Bonanza that he named, ”Waikiki Beech”, from Hawaii to Teterboro, New Jersey. Incredibly, he made it the entire way on “a single tank of gas” — a distance of 5,273 [...]
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Roswell Revisited?
This Week’s Hints to help you along: In a secret hangar, this flying saucer languished due to budget limitations. It was not quite in Roswell, but nonetheless Roswellian in nature and design. It featured three engines but just two counter-rotating propellers underneath. A larger version would have featured seven engines, but without funding, was never [...]
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