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The 'old bus' endures: Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith's famous Fokker Southern Cross has pride of place in Brisbane.(RESTORED)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 2055 words; ...to venture into the Fokker's cockpit, an experience I will...Charles Ulm in 1928. The Fokker's new owners outfitted it with...manufacturer, and The Spirit of California. Those clumsy additions were...radioman James Warner, both U.S. merchant mariners. The Australians...

In California, postal worker Dean Hudson has been found guilty.(Brickbats)
Reason; 1/1/2010; 286 words; In California, postal worker Dean Hudson has been found guilty of stealing money from children's birthday cards. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Amelia: Why the endless fascination with a woman who by most accounts was a mediocre pilot, best known for disappearing in the Pacific?(Amelia Earhart)(Brief biography)(Cover story)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 4585 words; ...gear weakened by another pilot's bounced landing, or a mechanical...moment of candor said, "It's all my fault." But she later...Wiley Post declared Earhart's first Vega, which she flew across...country to the Lockheed factory in California for repairs, "the foulest he...

Amelia's Goggles.(BRIEFING)(Amelia Earhart )(Brief article)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 583 words; ...goggles Amelia Earhart wore during her 1932 solo transatlantic flight were sold at an October 8-9 auction held in California by Profiles in History. Called "the single most important flightworn aviation artifact to ever be offered at public...

Crippled Connie over the pacific.(MAILBAG)(Letter to the editor)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 479 words; Stephan Wilkinson's story of the three-engine Pan Am Connie...December 2, 1958, I was the copilot of a U.S. Air Force RC-121D on patrol at 4,000 feet about 500 miles off the California coast. The aircraft commander, Captain Don...