Learning to Fly
It’s been a full century since the Wright Flyer’s first powered flight. At first, the skies were empty and the airspace unrestricted. It was an age of slow speeds,
Developed as a World War I bomber, the Vickers Vimy was the finest
By piloting the Wright Flyer on the windswept dunes at Kitty Hawk, navigating the Ryan NYP “Spirit of St. Louis” across the dark North Atlantic, and bringing in a sophisticated Boeing
A Century of Flight
“The best way to understand
Posters celebrated the Vickers Vimy’s
nonstop transatlantic crossing.
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Experience
the Dream
The centennial of powered flight has enjoyed a healthy share of media coverage. But it’s one thing to learn about history, and quite another to experience it. And that is what Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight is all
to fly with them,” writes Flying magazine columnist and West Coast editor Lane Wallace in her introduction to A Century of Flight. In nine evocative stories, Wallace recounts her experiences with the historic aircraft featured in Flight Simulator and reflects on their legacies.
Savoring the rare opportunity to sit in Amelia Earhart’s Vega, Wallace writes, “‘This is where she sat,’ I whisper wonderingly to myself, well aware of how few people since then have ever been allowed to sit in the silence of this carefully preserved cathedral …”
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