Since Louis Bleriot snatched the first Channel crossing and won the £10,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail in December 1903, mankind has been mesmerised by flight. The prize went to a Frenchman, but the impetus came from the English Lord Northcliffe. Since that time, Britain has gathered a magnificent collection of aviation memorabilia.

Precision Guided Munitions Rockwell AGM-130A/B and Northrop AGM-136A Tacit Rainbow One of the most interesting aspects of PGM evolution has been a distinct tendency to develop role specific weapons. Two paths are pursued in this quest, with modular families of weapons spawning ever growing numbers of sub-variants and subtypes. Only occasionally is it that an

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Boeing 747 Part I Part Twenty Eight in a Series Examining the Airliners That Established Civil Aviation in Australia No other commercial airliner carries a greater share of international travel and trade than the Boeing 747. Nor does any other airliner carry a greater burden of responsibility for the continued good fortunes of the world’s