To Fly and Fight: Memoirs of a Triple Ace by U.S. Air Force Colonel […]
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Building a Better Navy Jet
Faced with an air superiority gap versus Air Force jets in the late 1940s […]
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At Home in the Blue Vault
Legendary fighter leader Robin Olds once told a Strategic Air Command gathering, ‘Peace is […]
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Fettered Eagles: Great Aircraft That Never Made It Into Production
Great aircraft don’t always make it past the prototype stage, leaving their designers to lament what might have been.
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Aviation History Book Review: The God Machine
The God Machine: From Boomerangs to Black Hawks, The Story of the Helicopter by […]
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Book Review: Rupert Red Two
Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot’s Life From Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs, by Jack Broughton, […]
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Sea Sentinel: The Lockheed P2V Neptune
Lockheed’s P2V Neptune served in Korea and Vietnam, searched for Soviet submarines and even carried nuclear weapons, but today is largely forgotten.
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Aviation History Book Review: Combat Pair
Combat Pair: The Evolution of Air Force–Navy Integration in Strike Warfare by Benjamin S. […]
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CIA Man Thought He Had Winning Formula
Could Ed Lansdale have won the Vietnam War if U.S. leaders had just listened […]
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The Origins of the Topgun Fighter Pilot School
Before “Top Gun,” the Topgun school for fighter pilots brought U.S. air power back from a precipitous decline.