This iconic aircraft carried some of the heaviest loads during the Vietnam War
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Book Review: Race of Aces-WWII’s Elite Airmen and the Epic Battle to Become the Master of the Sky
Bestselling author John Bruning begins his massive, exhaustively researched and fast-paced account of the competition for the title of American ace of aces in World War II with a startling statistic:
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Liberators’ Legacy: Memorials to the Aleutians Air War
B-24 bomber wrecks on remote Alaskan islands stand as mute testimony to the hard-fought air war during the Aleutians campaign.
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Building a MiG-Killer F-4B Phantom II
By adding a few aftermarket extras to Haesgawa’s F-4B Phantom II, a ”phan” can proudly add the Navy’s first MiG killer of the Vietnam war to their display shelf.
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Light Singles Under Pressure: Quest to Pressurize Private Planes
The effort to develop a pressurized lightplane for private pilots deflated when it became clear the market for such aircraft was nearly nonexistent.
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Over the Side: Life on the Edge of an Aircraft Carrier
A U.S. Navy aerial photographer captured dramatic images of aircraft carrier flight operations during the Korean War.
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Giant of the Air Force Stood Tall in Korea and Vietnam
Korean War ace Robbie Risner emerged as a POW leader during the seven years he spent in North Vietnam’s infamous Hanoi Hilton
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Flight of the Yellow Bird and the First Transatlantic Stowaway
Three Frenchmen were in for a surprise when they took off from Maine’s Old Orchard Beach on a transatlantic flight attempt to Paris in 1929.
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Northrop’s Radical Flying Wing Bomber of the 1940s
Jack Northrop dreamed big with his futuristic flying wing, but the radical bomber proved too great a technological leap for his company to bridge in the late 1940s.
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The Forgotten Story of Midway’s Marine Defenders
Outnumbered and outgunned, the Marine pilots of VMF-221 paid a heavy price for their heroic efforts to stem the Japanese onslaught on Midway Atoll.