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In 1916, eight Curtiss biplanes from the U.S. Army’s 1st Aero Squadron—the country’s entire air force—flew into Mexico for their first military action.
March 19, 2009 | By Tony Reichhardt

You don’t see much bipartisanship in Washington these days, but yesterday all 17 female members of the U.S. Senate, Democrats and Republicans alike, introduced a bill (S. 614) to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs. The medal, previously given to groups...
March 18, 2009 | By Tony Reichhardt

Introduced in 1935, the Heinkel He 111 bomber was one of the Condor Legion’s most potent weapons.

In the skies over Spain, pilots and airplanes rehearsed for World War II.
May 2009 | By Carl Posey

At the R.E.P. factory in Buc, France, around 1911, workers test the strength of a monoplane wing by inverting it and filling it with sand.

May 2009 | By Paul Hoversten

KTLA’s fleet, mid-1960s. Telecopter 2 sports red livery. (KMPC News’ helicopter broadcast on the radio.) From left: Silva, Morby, and Telecopter pilot Larry Scheer.

One day in L.A., a helicopter changed television news forever.
May 2009 | By Stephen Joiner

Operation Vittles was a military miracle: The Allies delivered 2.3 million tons of supplies to Berlin.

May 2009 | By George C. Larson, member, NAA

In addition to guarding the National Air and Space Museum’s treasured trophies, Alex Spencer is responsible for the British military aircraft holdings, and the 13,000 artifacts that make up the flight matériel collection.

May 2009 | By George C. Larson

From the desk of the Director of the National Air & Space Museum
May 2009 | By J. R. Dailey

A true story with an O.Henry ending.
May 2009 | By Mark Huber

Major Dan Cherry (right) and Lieutenant Hong My, in Vietnam last year.

Dan Cherry and Hong My met in the skies over North Vietnam in 1972, then again 36 years later.
May 2009 | By Dan Cherry

Aerospatiale's Concorde made its maiden flight 40 years ago this week, a half-hour hop out of Toulouse-Blagnac Airport on March 2, 1969.What heady days those were for aviation and space. Not a month earlier, the Boeing 747 had made its first flight. And a month and a half prior to that, the Saturn ...
March 05, 2009 | By Mike Klesius

Wondering who wrote the first description of flying over a landscape, I came across this charming passage by Jacques Charles, French scientist and inventor of the hydrogen balloon. Charles wasn't the first to fly—that honor goes to Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes, who fle...
March 04, 2009 | By Tony Reichhardt

Charles Bronson starred. The Pentagon had a few minor corrections.
August 2007 | By airspacemag.com

Songs inspired by the early age of flight.
February 19, 2009 | By Rebecca Maksel

George Mosolov toured the National Air and Space Museum in 2007.

A top Soviet-era test pilot talks about his favorite MiGs and his friend Yuri Gagarin.
January 22, 2009 | By Tony Reichhardt

A worker does a final paint touchup before the Gee Bee

A GeeBee racer in flyable condition? Don’t do it.
March 2009 | By ROBERT BERNIER

Canadian newspapers trumpeted the glories of the Avro C102 Jetliner, which made its first flight in 1949 at Malton Airport in Toronto.

The only thing that kept Canada from beating the U.S. to a jet airliner was Canada.
March 2009 | By Graham Chandler

There's more than one way to dump extra fuel before landing.
March 2009 | By Lieutenant Colonel Alfred (Joe) D’Amario, U.S. Air Force (ret.)

Briefcase in hand, a passenger weighs in at London’s Croydon Aerodrome before a flight to Scotland in 1934. The checks were necessary to ensure the airplane wasn’t too heavy for takeoff.

February 2009 | By Roger A. Mola

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A California hot-rodder took on the feuding Arfons brothers in the 1960s.
March 2009 | By Preston Lerner

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