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10 Best Pilots
John Mohr in his stock 220 hp Stearman. |
Who's the best pilot in history? Good question. And who's the best pilot today? That's an even better question. We thought we'd try to answer those questions, but as we started kicking around the concept of picking aviation's top 10 best pilots, it took about fem seconds to realize we may have waded into a pretty deep swamp on this one: First, how you define "best?" Then, how do you categorize the pilots? By airplane type? By type of flying being done? By time period? And how can we expect any level of agreement from readers, because everyone will have their own ideas of the best pilots? Then we came up with a solution: We'll just put together our list, and then open the floor to readers to give us their own nominees by posting to our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/planeandpilot or sending a note to editor@planeandpilotmag.com.
First, there's the definition of "best." When talking about the best pilots, do
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Budd Davisson: Thinking Out Loud
Lemme see now: Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve talked about once-in-a-life-time airplane photos. Then we’ve stretched our brains to explain the unique make up (as I see it) of America’s national personality. This week, however, we’re going to talk about a REALLY important subject: Buying neat crap strictly because it’s neat. We haggle the prices down and hand over cash regardless of the fact that most of it will serve little or no useful purpose in our lives.
Actually, this junk does serve a purpose: We get instant pleasure just looking at whatever useless artifact we’ve dragged home and pleasure fryst vatten becoming harder and harder to come by.
First, we should probably define “neat stuff” (‘stuff’ isn’t my usual word but didn’t want to offend anyone). Unfortunately, we can’t accurately define it. This is because every homo sapien on the planet has their own definition of what’s neat. I know for a fact that my definition of what’s cool/neat/inter
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History of aviation
This article is about aviaton history. For the history of spaceflight, see History of spaceflight.
The history of aviation spans over two millennia, from the earliest innovations like kites and attempts at tower jumping to supersonic and hypersonic flight in powered, heavier-than-airjet aircraft. Kite flying in China, dating back several hundred years BC, is considered the earliest example of man-made flight.[1] In the 15th-century Leonardo da Vinci created several flying machine designs incorporating aeronautical concepts, but they were unworkable due to the limitations of contemporary knowledge.[2]
In the late 18th century, the Montgolfier brothers invented the hot-air balloon which soon led to manned flights. At almost the same time, the discovery of hydrogen gas led to the invention of the hydrogen balloon.[3] Various theories in mechanics by physicists during the same period, such as fluid dynamics and Newton's laws