As is true of other historical subjects which focus on the material products of human ingenuity, the history of aviation is nearly always written with an eye toward achievements understood to have defined (or best represented) a particular period or era. No art historian, for example, would consider a survey of Western art complete without [...]

In the early spring of 2005, a Scottish art collective known as Henry VIII’s Wives launched a new project in homage to one of the twentieth century’s greatest avant-garde works: “Tatlin’s Tower.” Their ongoing project proposes

to build the Tower, full size from steel girders and guy wires. It will be built in sections, [...]