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- The Short Stirling bomber Built by Short brothers, the Stirling was a four engined bomber in use at the start of World War II. It had a relatively short service life as a bomber, from 1941 to 1943 when it was replaced by the Halifax and Lancaster. It was then used to spread c...
- Bessie Coleman Bessie Coleman, the daughter of a poor, southern, African American family, became one of the most famous women and African Americans in aviation history. "Brave Bessie" or "Queen Bess," as she became known, faced the double diffic...
- Richard Pearse Flew First - Before the Wright Brothers! Richard Pearse successfully completed the first powered air flight, nearly nine months before the Wright Brothers On March 31, 1903, Richard Pearce, a New Zealand born and self taught engineer, successfully completed the world’s first powered...
- Female Pioneers in Aviation There are some amazing stories of courage and determination in the annals of aviation history. The female pioneers in aviation fought a hard battle, but it was a battle worth fighting. This lens pays tribute to those heroic women. Bessie Coleman, alon...
- Life of Amelia Earhart What Really Happened to Amelia Earhart? Did she go down in the Pacific? Was she Captured by the Japanese? Was Amelia thought to be a Spy and Murdered?
- Women in History - Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart is fascinating to me not only because of her achievements in the field of aviation, but because of how she lived her life during a time when women were just beginning to speak with a louder voice and gaining the ability to affect publi...
- Aviation Between the Wars Spitfire. Tiger Moth. Empire. Maxim Gorky. Vega. Some of the aircraft defining The Golden Age of flying, names that resonate with aviation enthusiasts and beyond. Earhart. Hughes. Sikorsky. Lindbergh. Alcock and Brown. Tupolev. RJ Mitchell. Boeing....
