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America by Air: The Mid-Atlantic in the Snow
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Who Invented the Parachute That Has Been Saving Small-Plane Pilots?
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Another Small-Plane Parachute Save
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Our Newest National Monument, From the Air
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A Quality-Lit Version of the Aerial View
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How a Controller Sounds When Trying to Save an Airplane
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Local Pilot Makes Good: Congrats Ken Griffey Jr.!
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In Which I Agree With Senator Inhofe
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Is the New Chinese Airliner a Kind of Flying iPhone?
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Associated Press A Former Walmart CEO Comes Down Under a Parachute
How a unique small aircraft (appears to have) saved those aboard
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China Launches the C919! Should Boeing and Airbus Look Out?
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Marina Lystseva / Reuters A Triage Guide to Thinking About the Russian Airliner Crash Over Egypt
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The Return of ExIm?
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The Return of ExIm?
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The Return of ExIm?
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The Return of ExIm?
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An Airline Captain Dies in Flight
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The 3-D View of Swimming Through the Sky
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Wikimedia What an F-16 Pilot Sees—and Misses
Two experienced fighter pilots on suspending judgment about the latest aviation disaster, and the operating realities of the Air Force jet that rammed into a little civilian airplane
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From Top Gun / YouTube Can the 'Right Stuff' Become the Wrong Stuff?
More on the F-16 and Cessna crash, and whether the collision of a military and a civilian aircraft was also a collision of cultures
