After 53 missions on two continents, a B-25 pilot endured months of maltreatment in […]
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1st Pursuit Group Crews tests Old Man Winter in 1930
Above an ice-covered lake in eastern Washington state on January 19, 1930, a group […]
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Lake Murray’s ‘Fallen Warrior’ finds a home at the Southern Museum of Flight
On Sunday morning, April 4, 1943, the pilots at Columbia Army Air Base, South […]
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Firebombers! Flying on the Edge to Fight Fires
As last fall’s California wildfires demonstrated, the demand for aerial firefighters and the dangers they face have never been greater.
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The Luftwaffe’s Carrier Plane That Never Flew From a Ship
Designed as a carrier-based torpedo bomber, the Fieseler Fi-167 ended up hunting Yugoslav Partisans when its ship never materialized.
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Book Review: The Women Who Flew for Hitler
British historian Clare Mulley profiles the Third Reich’s leading female pilots Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg
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Stealth Secrets of the F-117 Nighthawk
Its development was kept under wraps for 14 years, but by 1991, the F-117 Nighthawk had become a household word.
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Before the Black Sheep: Unhappy Tiger ‘Pappy’ Boyington
During Gregory Boyington’s brief, tempestuous career with the AVG, he was responsible for losing more airplanes than he shot down.
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Arch and Teddy: First Flight By a U.S. President
A bromance blossomed between Archibald Hoxsey and Theodore Roosevelt in 1910 when the early aviator took TR for a short flight—the first by a U.S. president.
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Unfettered Turkeys: Airplanes That Never Should Have Flown
It’s easy enough to design a bad airplane, but it takes real gumption to put it into production despite all signs to the contrary.