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Airplane pilots are optimists. “Everything will be fine,” we say before a flight, but a touch of doubt lingers because we know that mechanical things fail, people make mistakes and aviation, like the sea, is inherently unforgiving of failure or mistake...

ENTER BEENK One Thursday night in 1980—that interminable presidential election year now melted into the slippery coin of Reagan’s Shangri-La moment—a Clinton, Iowa, public school teacher drove 41 miles south to the larger river city of Davenport to...

by Milton J. Elliott III When the call came that morning, it was not unlike the 25 times previously when they had flown, or all those other times when weather intervened and postponement was ordered. The many plots to assassinate the madman responsible...

G2mil is a collection of articles on military and space affairs, authored by Carlton Meyer, a former Marine Corps officer who participated in military operations around the world.  He had written dozens of articles for military magazines, but became...

8)INS VIKRAMADITYA INS vikramaditya during sea trails The aircraft carrier was first launched by the USSR in the early 1980s. However, on account of the dissolution of the Soviet Socialist Republic, the vessel’s utility in the East European bloc did...