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Three Martin M-130 Martin Ocean Transport flying boats were designed and built by the Glenn L. Martin Company in Baltimore, Maryland, for Pan American Airways in 1935. Although each clipper that joined the Pan American fleet to serve on their Trans-Pacific...
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April 20th, 1962, while Neil Armstrong tested a self-adjusting control system on the X-15, he managed to reach a height of over 207,000 feet, but during the descent, the aircraft nose was held up too long and the X-15 bounced...
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Folded wings, missing wingtips, and engines torn away mid-flight — a collection of the most incredible aviation survival stories where pilots defied the odds and brought their aircraft home.
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One fine hot summers afternoon there was a Cessna 150 flying in the pattern at a quiet country airfield. The Instructor was getting quite bothered with the student's inability to maintain altitude in the thermals and was getting impatient at...
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On 27 June 1976, Air France Flight 139, an Airbus A300 (Airbus A300B4-203), registration F-BVGG (c/n 019), departed from Tel Aviv, Israel, carrying 246 passengers and a crew of 12. According to their planned route, Flt 139 then proceeded to...
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