Aviation History 2021-03 (Vol.31 No.04)(1).pdf

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odyssey of the airship norge:
first to the north pole?
Topgun’s Big Cat
why the
f-14 tomcat
never lived
up to its holl
ywood image
battlefield angels:
special forces pioneer
aerial evacuation in WWII
leave no man behind:
search and rescue
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march 2021
DEPARTMENTS
5 MAILBAG
6 BRIEFING
10 AVIATORS
Daredevil “birdman” Bud
Mars thrilled crowds at
U.S. airshows and per-
formed flight demonstra-
tions on a historic 1911
tour of Hawaii and Asia.
By Daniel J. Demers
36
features
26
Tomcatting
A Kaman UH-2A
Seasprite hovers
above USS
Coral
Sea’s
flight deck.
More than two decades
of restoration work has
saved the one-of-a-kind
Bell X-14 and made it a
prized museum piece.
By Douglas G. Adler
Thanks to the film
Top Gun,
Grumman’s F-14 Tomcat was
a U.S. Navy recruiter’s dream, but its mismatched original
engine diminished the airplane’s performance legacy.
By Stephan Wilkinson
36
Angels From Above
The birth of special forces in World War II kick-started
another important military innovation—the air evacuation
of wounded soldiers from distant battlefields.
By Gavin Mortimer
14
16 EXTREMES
Pioneering designer Ivan
Makhonin’s telescoping
wings represented a
novel approach in the
development of airplanes
with variable-geometry
wingspans.
By Robert Guttman
44
Leave No Man Behind
Determined American aircrews battled daunting terrain and
an ever-present enemy to expand and improve search-and-
rescue techniques during the Vietnam War.
By Eileen A. Bjorkman
The control car and engine
pods of the airship
Norge.
60
52
The Greatest Flight
In 1927 two Midwesterners set out to join the pantheon of
aviation’s golden age by attempting to fly around the world
in a single-engine Stinson monoplane.
By Barry Levine
18 STYLE
Showcasing products of
interest to aviation
enthusiasts
and pilots.
60
Into Cold Air
Famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and the crew
of the airship
Norge
crossed the North Pole in 1926—the
first men confirmed to reach the top of the world.
By Michael Engelhard
24 LETTER FROM
AVIATION
HISTORY
66 REVIEWS
70 FLIGHT TEST
72 AERO
ARTIFACT
ON THE COVER:
A U.S. Navy Grumman F-14A Tomcat from the VF-84 “Jolly Rogers” fires an AIM-54 Phoenix missile.
The Tomcat was the only aircraft to use the Phoenix operationally, with mixed results. Cover illustration: Adam Tooby.
2
AH
march 2021
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