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August 14, 2014 (August 14, 2014)

Q&A with Locomotive to Aeromotive author Simine Short

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Simine Short is an aviation historian who has researched and written extensively on the history of motorless flight. Her first book, Glider Mail: An Aerophilatelic Handbook, received numerous research awards worldwide and is […]

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March 28, 2013 (April 12, 2013)

The First to Fly Controversy

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Recently the publication, Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft declared at that aviator Gustave Whitehead, instead of the Wright brothers, was the first to take to the air in the sustained operation of a […]

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