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Articles

This category is the index of the Learn More articles that the atlas's entities carry. They are longer prose than an entity page itself, and they are drafted only when article authoring is active, as a dedicated end of phase pass rather than continuously. Most articles here are still pending review. The category is not a subject in its own right, and it excludes the entities the articles are about, which live under their own types.

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A 50 dollar wager and the first drive across America

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A bigger wing, a missing engine and a bomber contract

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A bought-in fighter and the anti-spin parachute that lost the Argentine sale

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A canceled Australian order that New Zealand picked up

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A cautious innovator from steam battleship to airship

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A diesel in a Packard limousine and the road to the highway diesel truck

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A dissertation rejected as utopian, and the book that followed

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A drone built to be soldier proof: the CL-89 as a whole system

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A failed aircraft and the feud over who flew first

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A Fiat chairman at the end of a long wait

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A fighter that arrived too late for Australia

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A flying car and the wrong fuel gauge

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A forced kite flight from the tower at Ye

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A Formula One engine in a road car, and the racer that never raced

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A four-engine aeroplane that observers said could not fly

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A ground attack aircraft with the weapons taken out

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A helicopter that set an endurance record and still lost its customers

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A lawyer, three submarines and a fatal command

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A light fighter that stayed on paper: the Douglas XP-48

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A light helicopter designed with tour operators

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A limousine built around a borrowed diesel V12

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A liner designed for two jobs: the stability question behind the Waratah

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A lunch conversation and the end of the XB-55

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A Norwegian order that ended over skis

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A patent granted weeks before the Wrights and a model that never reached the fair

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A private venture that became several engines

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A publicity stunt on wheels: Alice Ramsey and the Maxwell transcontinental drive

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A race, a wrong airfield and a plane on a museum ceiling

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A racing concept that stood for a road car's future

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A racing V8 built to Indycar rules

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A rejected diving bell and a borrowed lung: how Charles Momsen got submarine rescue accepted

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A rejected fighter design given a second chance

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A rocket built from a lost supplier and an old engine

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A sewing machine fortune, an assembly line and a Nazi patron

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A small airliner undercut by war surplus

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A spec racing engine built for reliability and equal supply

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A strike, a family split and unpaid machine tool orders at Orsi's Maserati

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A submarine that passed its trial and a program that stalled

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A supercar that never sold but whose technology did

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A superjumbo that stayed on paper: the Sukhoi KR-860 and its gas-fuelled tanker idea

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A terrain warning system that was never finished

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A trainer bid that became a civil turbine helicopter

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A transport biplane at work policing the Middle East

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A tuner-supplied engine for Formula 3000

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A turbine the size of a shipping container: how the LM2500 is fitted and combined

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A V8 built by two companies: the Mitsubishi 8A8 and Hyundai

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A warship rebuilt as a nuclear test platform

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A windshield wiper patent that outran its market

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Alexander de Seversky: from patents to Republic Aviation to air power

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Alexander Winton and the long drive that sold the car

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