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Trapped inside an ice cave in 1992, the P-38 looked helpless despite its fearsome weapons.

How it got trapped in the ice, and how it got out.
July 2007 | By airspacemag.com

James Robbins (front row, right) poses with some of his shipmates. Behind him are Lopez (to the left) and Hendersin (to the right).

When people die serving their country, to what lengths must a government go to recover the bodies?
July 2007 | By Carl Hoffman

Pine Island, anchored off Antarctica during Operation Highjump, prepare a PBM-5 Mariner for flight during a snowstorm.

A year after World War II ended, the U.S. Navy mounted a massive-though hastily planned-mission to the bottom of the world.
July 2007 | By Paul Hoversten

Seeing a Zero in the air is a rare treat, but if collectors have their way, more like this one could take wing in coming years.

Finding an airworthy Zero is not easy these days. In fact, you can count them on one hand.
July 2007 | By Roger Mola

Earhart poses in a Pitcairn PCA-2 Autogiro in 1931.

Take our Earhart quiz and find out.
July 2007 | By airspacemag.com

One of the Zenith

"That Big Biplane" | 1929 Zenith Z6A
March 2007 | By Don Parsons

In the 1930s, a group of air-minded Oregonians started one of the first homebuilding clubs. Here, the pilots and builders banded together against a new threat: federal regulation.

A hub of creativity for early airplane builders: North Carolina? Ohio? Nope—Oregon. And these Oregonians had an independent streak.
May 2007 | By Ken Scott

Bob Englar revived the Custer Channel Wing for wind tunnel experiments directing airflow.

Willard Custer's Channel Wing looked like a mistake. Turns out his critics were the ones who were wrong.
May 2007 | By Tim Wright

Overhead lights at a factory in Santa Monica, California, are reflected in row upon row of Plexiglas noses destined for Douglas A-20 attack bombers.

Individual effort and mass production are equally represented in a new book celebrating World War II aircraft factories.
May 2007 | By The editors

To test human responses to G forces, the Navy put subjects in a 10- by six-foot oblate steel sphere at the end of a 50-foot arm.

Riding an Atlas into space was a piece of cake compared to pulling 32 Gs on the Johnsville centrifuge.
May 2007 | By Mark Wolverton

Photos of scale model channel Wing aircraft were found in the National Air and Space Museum archives, with no caption information available. Volunteer Pete D

How a meeting 50 years ago solved a photographic mystery.
May 2007 | By Joe Pappalardo

In March 1945, Colonel Benjamin O. Davis was commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces 332nd Fighter Group (better known as the Tuskegee airmen) in Italy. Pilots of the 332nd flew North American P-51 Mustangs as fighter escorts for Allied bombers. After the war, Davis would become the first black general in the U.S. Air Force.

A talk with the curator of the National Air and Space Museum's soon-to-be-updated exhibit on African-Americans in aviation.
March 2007 | By Diane Tedeschi

Marlon Green in the cockpit of one of Continental

It took a Supreme Court decision, but in 1963 Marlon Green finally broke into the majors.
March 2007 | By Tony Reichhardt

Airline pilot Mark Watt flies Steve Craig

Proud owner of the last flying Wildcat
March 2007 | By Diane Tedeschi

Northrop Flying Wing

Ten airplanes that are the last still flying.
March 2007 | By Stephen Joiner

Mark Edwards in a turbine Air Tractor

The airplanes are faster and the power lines more plentiful, but cropdusters fly today just as they did in the 1920s.
March 2007 | By Tom Harpole

The "Father of the 747" talks about the famed airliner's birth.
January 2007 | By Bettina Chavanne

"Glacier Girl" at the Nellis AFB Airshow, November 2006.

Sixty-five years after its first attempt, the restored Lightning should finally reach England next year.
January 2007 | By Larry Lowe

The sculptural relief on the terminal

No More New Orleans Cover-up
January 2007 | By Vincent P. Caire

The Soviets

Supersonic airplanes and a screen of radar stood ready during the cold war to avert the end of the world.
January 2007 | By Carl Posey

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