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Like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, ‘Buffalo Tom’ Vernon held up a train. Well, not quite like them— it was 1929, and Vernon was strictly an amateur. Out on parole in August 1929, 45-year-old “Buffalo Tom” Vernon was getting a little old for the criminal life, but neither that realization nor the fact he …
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Aviation History Briefing- May 2013Return of the Avenger Largely unnoticed among restorations of more glamorous fighters, the waddling, two-story-high Grumman Avenger torpedo bomber has become a favorite warbird sur… Read MoreAmerican KamikazeU.S. Navy pilot “Griff” Griffin survived intense combat in the Pacific War, then trained for missions that could only be described as suicidal. In October 1944, as USS bombers laun… Read MorePioneering ConvertiplaneGerard Herrick tried to have the best of both worlds—fixed-wing and rotary-wing—with his HV-2A. The concept of rotary-winged aircraft goes all the way back—on paper, at least—to Le… Read MoreCat Tales: Consolidated’s PBY Flying BoatConsolidated’s rugged PBY set a standard for flying boats and amphibians that will never be eclipsed. 1935 was a vintage year for first flights. It saw the arrival of three enormou… Read MoreSpitfire From the SandsLong buried on a Calais beach, a meticulously reconstructed Mark I is once again in flying trim. In the fall of 1980, a beachcomber walking the shoreline at Calais, on France’s nor… Read More
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