Today in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, I’ll be flying the Supermarine S.5, the British racing plane from the 1920s that pointed the way to one of the most iconic planes of World War II: the Spitfire. This is also the story of the Schneider Trophy, one of the most prestigious prizes in early aviation, which […]

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“Life can only be understood backwards,” the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard observed, “but it must be lived forwards.” When we try to identify with people who did not know what happened next, we shed new light on them, and on what did happen.

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