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There’s a good reason why the flight endurance record has stood since 1959: Who wants to spend more than 65 days crammed in a lightplane? Before the advent of aerial refueling, fuel tank capacity was the main determining factor of an airplane’s endurance. With aerial refueling, record nonstop time aloft, once measured in hours, was measured …
British administrators put down the 1948–60 communist uprising using a successful and surprising mix of counterinsurgency tactics 
The 91st anniversary of Charles Lindbergh’s record-making transatlantic flight has come and gone while Spirit of St. Louis 2, a scratch-built replica of the famous airplane, remains grounded (see “Spirit of St. Louis 2,” March 2018 Aviation History). SOS 2, as the Spirit of St. Louis 2 is familiarly known, was originally scheduled to retrace …
If all goes according to plan, a replica of Charles Lindbergh’s historic Spirit of St. Louis will take off from Long Island on May 20, 2018, to re-create “Lucky Lindy’s” solo, nonstop flight to Paris. Spirit of St. Louis 2, dubbed SOS 2 for short, is nearing completion in an 8,000-square-foot hangar at Novato’s Gnoss …
Author Michael Giorgione brings listeners inside the gates of America's historic presidential retreat.