Thirty years after Amelia Earhart vanish, another woman flier set out to retrace her […]
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The Barling Bomber: “Billy” Mitchell’s Long Range Failure
Cost overruns and poor performance doomed the experimental strategic bomber, but it helped point the way to the future.
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Corsair! The Award-Winning Painting
American Society of Aviation Artists 2008 Award of Distinction winner. The clean, distinctive lines […]
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Nebraska’s RF-4C Phantom II Restored
The Nebraska Air National Guard reclaims an RF-4C, preserving its own history. For many […]
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Herman the German the Secrets and Myths of the Japanese Zero
Master engineer Gerhard Neumann helped keep the Tigers flying and enabled the Allies to evaluate the first captured Japanese Zero.
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Book Review: The Road to Big Week
The Road to Big Week by Eric Hammel, Pacifica Military History, Pacifica, Calif., 2009, […]
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Avro Vulcan: This Jet Flew 8,000 Miles to Bomb the Falklands
Fast, agile and futuristic, the RAF’s Avro Vulcan nuclear bomber left an indelible impression on the crewmen who flew it during the Cold War.
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Off to Oz- Adventurous Aviators
It wasn’t long after Kitty Hawk that intrepid birdmen sought to overcome the challenges […]
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Operation Mallory Major
A Twelfth Air Force intelligence officer came up with a daring plan to cripple […]
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Lloyd Stearman’s Sturdy Biplanes Trained Generations of Aviators
Lloyd Stearman’s sturdy airplanes earned a worldwide reputation for performance and reliability during aviation’s Golden Age.