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Grab some inspiration from the aviators who took to the sky to defend their country.

Matt Moore’s grandfather Abraham Samuel Dennis was in his early twenties while stationed at Kessler Field in Biloxi, Mississippi, serving as a mess sergeant in the United States Army Air Corps. As the fall season brought about a welcome drop in sticky Southern temperatures, so too came rumors which would soon deploy his unit to a base little known to most Americans. Trace Moore’s culinary roots by flying a Piper Cherokee in search of good butchers and food stories.

According to ASA, ‘Mental Math for Pilots’ teaches readers how to solve math problems in the cockpit without calculators, using solutions that are simple and practical for airborne contingencies.

“Bomber Boys: WWII Flight Jacket Art,” creates a visual record of A-2 jackets from World War II as seen through the lens of award-winning photographer John Slemp.

Advisory circulars from the FAA used to be sent to pilots via the U.S. mail. They were printed on blue paper and sometimes arrived with such frequency you felt like you were on Hogan’s Heroes—every message that the characters on that classic TV show got from London came on blue paper. A great many of […]

The graphically rich handbook, Barry Schiff’s ‘An Illustrated Guide to Flying,’ serves as a primer for aspiring pilots and a reference for instructors.

When I saw the trailer for The Right Stuff in a movie theater, I knew what my plans were for opening night—and, oh did that movie deliver! A World War II ace tasked to pilot the Bell X-1—that orange, bullet-shaped, rocket-powered beast—dropped from the belly of a B-29. He risked it all to break the […]

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A novel reveals the story about a little-known C-47 rescue operation during World War II in Yugoslavia.