Walter J. Boyne’s “World Aviation History”

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Walter J. Boyne (born 1929) is a retired United States Air Force officer, combat veteran, aviation historian, and author of over fifty books and over one thousand magazine articles. He is a former director of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. […]

At the dawn of the Cold War, air surveillance missions over “denied areas” could–and did–get pretty sporty. […]