Flying

The SA-7 grail: man-portable missile packs a punch.(ARSENAL)
Vietnam; 2/1/2010; 914 words; ...conflict to see its use. While early models suffered from slow acceleration, the Grail proved very effective against low-flying, slow-moving aircraft, such as helicopters, the A-1, T-28 and A-26. Since few pilots were warned of its arrival...

Homecoming for last Aussie MIAs.(News)(missing in action)(Brief article)
Military History; 1/1/2010; 493 words; Australia has repatriated the last of its Vietnam War MIAs. Last spring a search team found the remains of Flying Officer Michael Herbert and Pilot Officer Robert Carver deep within the jungle near the Laos border, where their Canberra bomber...

Team recovers remains of missing Navy pilot 18 years after shoot-down.(News)(Navy pilot Captain Michael Scott Speicher)(Brief article)
Military History; 1/1/2010; 660 words; ...later the Navy switched his status to missing/captured, fueling speculation the pilot may have survived his shoot-down. Flying was in Speicher's blood his father, Wallace, was a Navy pilot during World War II. Before his Gulf War deployment aboard...

Amelia getting it right.(motion picture)(Movie review)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 1047 words; ...Canadian Bush Plane Heritage Museum in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. For the Electra that Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan were flying when they went missing, Austerberry located and checked out the seven surviving examples that are in relatively good condition...

Kamikaze killer: the naval version of the Spitfire had its share of teething troubles, but by the end of World War II it had found its sea legs in the Pacific.(Supermarine Seafire )
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 3708 words; ...adapted to fulfill a role for which it was never intended, flying from carrier decks and ill-equipped landing strips. Consequently...that would dog the Seafire under less favorable conditions. Flying from and landing on a ship is an extremely difficult exercise...