pioneering pilots | Hartzell Propeller Airplane Propeller and Aircraft Propeller Systems Mon, 09 Dec 2019 13:41:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://hartzellprop.com/wp-content/uploads/logo2-60x60.png pioneering pilots | Hartzell Propeller 32 32 5 Early Influential U.S. Female Aviators to Know https://hartzellprop.com/famous-female-aviators-to-know/ Mon, 09 Dec 2019 13:41:23 +0000 http://hartzellprop.com/?p=19931 When you look at any list of “famous female pilots,” Amelia Earhart is almost guaranteed to show up on all of them. While she is a household name, the truth is that Amelia is almost more famous for what she didn’t do than for what she did. Her circumnavigational flight in 1937 in a Lockheed […]

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]]> How Were Fighter Pilots Trained During WWI? https://hartzellprop.com/how-were-fighter-pilots-trained-in-wwi/ Fri, 08 Nov 2019 21:45:40 +0000 http://hartzellprop.com/?p=19891 The combination of an undeveloped training program and unstable aircraft contributed to short life expectancies for WWI fighter pilots. In fact, WWI pilots had a higher chance of being killed during training than in the heroic combat dogfights we’ve seen portrayed in movies. Yet, despite the odds, young American men volunteered in droves to become […]

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