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    What is the best aviation story you have read.

    By the same author http://www.amazon.com/Gipsy-Circles-World-Francis-Chichester/dp/9990371903/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1/191-4925432-9787325?ie=UTF8&refRID=18NEXJDWD7PEW3K256WY
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    Hawaii ocean ditching by parachute

    Comments following video reference a faulty fuel transfer valve.
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    TV/Movies: Most stupid depiction of Aviation?

    National Historic Landmarks Program (NHL) In the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese bombing here and a other Oahu fields destroyed planes and gave Japanese forces the air superiority to proceed to attack Pearl Harbor warships.
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    TV/Movies: Most stupid depiction of Aviation?

    I saw the movie in a theater and still remember the scene where a side gunner almost goes through the plexiglass when in breaks.
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    TV/Movies: Most stupid depiction of Aviation?

    I found no fault in depiction of WWI aviation in the movie "The Red Baron", but casting of Matthias Schweighofer as von Richthofen was like having Macaulay Culkin in the part. "Flyboys", on the other hand was like a animated comic book.
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    Military A/C I've always wanted to fly

    WWII SBD Dauntless TBF Avenger My uncle was a Navy surgeon (ENT). The sent him up in an SBD to experience the effects of dive bombing on the ears.
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    SR-71 50th Anniversary

    The secret engine technology that made the SR-71 the fastest plane ever
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    TV/Movies: Most stupid depiction of Aviation?

    At the age I was watching, wouldn't have known bad versus good, myself. The IMBD site has 14 reviews of the show, 13 are 100% favorable. "Sky King" Reviews & Ratings - IMDb
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    TV/Movies: Most stupid depiction of Aviation?

    "Sky King", Radio and TV show. Sky King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sky King (TV Series 1951 I would not say it was a stupid depiction of aviation...
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