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Articles & Essays
COPYRIGHT 1998-2007
by Richard Harris

Last Updated Sept. 20, 2007

These pages are in
continuous development.

No guarantee is made as to the accuracy of the statements or observations made in these articles.

Great effort has been made to accurately reflect the facts,
but errors are inevitable for this scale of information-gathering,
performed by a single person.
Statements often reflect this author's subjective opinion.

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Stories:
    Various aviation stories by Richard Harris

Spyplanes, Spyships & Seizures
Flying A Warbird
Nightfall at Benton
Airbus A380 vs. Boeing 787 Dreamliner
Beware the "Safe" Airplane


The Most Important Aircraft of All Time:

Eight Great Aircraft
  8 Flying Machines that Changed the World

First Flyers: Who Are They?
  Who, really, were 'First to Fly'?

Helicopter History [NEW, just added!]
  Summary history of the helicopter

Planes & Their Makers   (General Aviation):

Who Made What?
  a listing of various popular aircraft, and their makers

Planes on the Plains  
  The "Air Capital of the World" isn't where you'd expect.

Why the Great Plains?   [DRAFT]
  Why have so many great planes come from the Great Plains?

The Air Capital Story:
  early general aviation & its manufacturers
[DRAFT]
  A quick summary history of major aircraft manufacturers
  with early roots in the Air Capital.
  Condensed from In Flight USA.






Photo Essays:
        [NEW! just added!] [DRAFT]


    A few photos from some other stories.

Mort Brown, at 99, Flying Again
U.S. Air Race, 2007
Proud Papa's Pietenpol (homebuilt)
(For more photos, see the Gallery .)

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General Aviation's Big Three:

Cessna Aircraft  

Piper / New Piper

Raytheon (Beech/Hawker)
With histories of its source companies:
  • Travel Air
  • Beech
  • deHavilland
  • Hawker

America's Other Big Names
  in General Aviation History:

    (this section under development; intial drafts only)

Aero Commander
        special subsection:
          Jet Commander & Sabreliner

Aeronca / Champion / ACA  
        [NEW! just updated!]

American Aircraft /
  Grumman-American /
    AGAC / (American-General)
      Tiger Aircraft family

Mooney Aircraft (the prelude)   [partial]

Coming soon:
(click names below for other websites on the topic)

 

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