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Why aircraft designers abandoned rear propellers

Early airplanes often flew with propellers mounted behind the pilot, pushing the aircraft forward rather than pulling it ...
Rookie waterbomber pilot Scott gets his first taste of action when Buffalo responds to an emergency callout to fight fires in ...
This couple decided to build a camper into an airplane and it proved to be more difficult than expected, pulled it off anyway ...
One man is credited with changing transportation in the early 1800s through bringing the steamboat to America and refining it ...
Strategic resources have been central to the American-led global system for decades, as a historian explains. But US actions ...
A dive team explores the submerged B-29 bomber at Lake Mead, a WWII relic preserved underwater since 1948.
Sealed struts and vortex generators make this vintage trainer a stable, maintenance-friendly find.
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The Wild Traveler

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Discover the origins and the major variants that made the Lightning a legend.
One McDonnell Douglas aircraft outpaced all others in popularity.
On an early Sunday morning in 1933, Trinidad looked up and saw a giant: the dirigible airship Graf Zeppelin gliding across the island on a transatlantic journey. Crowds gathered from ...