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The U.S. Air Force began using an off-the-shelf Skyhawk in 1964 to train cadets.

What flies into your mind when you hear the words "light aircraft"? We bet it's the 172.
July 2006 | By Roger A. Mola

Would Patent #1,665,114 fly? Only in Tesla

"You should not be at all surprised if someday you see me fly from New York to Colorado Springs in a contrivance which will resemble a gas stove and weigh almost as much."— Nikola Tesla, 1913
September 2006 | By A.J.S. RAYL

Visitors wait at Los Angeles International Airport to tour the new Pan Am Jet Clipper Liberty Bell, grounded during Skyshield II in October, 1961.

September 11, 2001 wasn't the first time U.S. air traffic was grounded.
November 2006 | By Roger A. Mola

Stanley King's memorabilia collection.
September 2006 | By Diane Tedeschi

Sixty-five years ago, the island was burning during a two-hour aerial assault that drew the United States into World War II.

A new aviation museum preserves Pearl Harbor's past.
September 2006 | By Ralph Wetterhahn

The roof of the building chosen to host El Paso

Long before the Global Positioning System, pilots got from town to town by reading rooftops.
September 2006 | By Roger A. Mola

Just under nine lives that created a company legend.
September 2006 | By Brian Nicklas

The Bv 138 attacked convoys, resupplied U-boats, and swept for mines mostly in Scandinavian waters.

What does the Northrop P-61 have in common with Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne?
January 2005 | By Mark Gatlin

T-34 owners are the latest to prove the value of good old-fashioned American ingenuity.
January 2005 | By Peter Garrison

A Piper L-4 Grasshopper demonstrates the Brodie System, in which an aircraft snagged a trolley that ran along a cable in order to land on a short strip or a ship.

Denizens of a small Minnesota airport: bombers, ones-of-a-kind, T-6s, Cubs, a 1938 Stinson SR10 once owned by the governor of Pennsylvania, and a veritable hive of homebuilders.
May 2005 | By Carl Posey

The Maxim Gorky, an enormous eight-engine Tupolev ANT-20, struck awe in those who watched its propaganda flights over Red Square (below).

To the three most infamous dictators of the 20th century, the airplane was much more than a way to get from Stalag A to Gulag B.
May 2005 | By Von Hardesty

Boeing’s 150-seat 7J7 concept (left) would meld prop-fan technology and lightweight composite structure to deliver big gains in fuel efficiency.

Meet the engine that became embroiled in round one of Boeing v. Airbus, a fight fueled by the cost of oil.
September 2005 | By Bill Sweetman

Fifty years ago, Metroliners plied short-haul routes around the world (above, a Swissair 440).

A South African company revives a 1950s airliner and the lost art of elegant travel.
September 2005 | By Sam Goldberg

Dashing in color and full of character, vintage sailplanes show up a nondescript modern white counterpart at a vintage meet-and-glide.

Visit Mountain Valley Airport and soar with the wood-and-fabric fans of the Vintage Sailplane Association.
March 2005 | By Chad Slattery

Ronald Reagan was president, there was still a Soviet Union, and a 19-year-old pilot set out to change the world.
July 2005 | By Tom LeCompte

To boost launch, crews loaded B-47s with jet-assisted takeoff bottles.

When President John Kennedy contemplated nuclear war, what went through the minds of the U.S. bomber crews?
November 2005 | By Thomas Jones

Instructor Herbert Cain introduces his French students to their new trainer.

With their own country occupied by Germany, French air cadets came to Alabama to learn to fly. Vive la Dixie!
March 2004 | By Janelle Dupont

Aeronautics, May 1930.

Page through these vintage magazine covers and return to a time when the world was vast and air travel was grand.
March 2004 | By Diane Tedeschi

Project honcho Bob Cardin (in white shirt) warmed up admirers at Dayton, Ohio’s airshow last July. Glacier Girl took home the Rolls-Royce Aviation Heritage Trophy and the National Aviation Hall of Fame People’s Choice award.

The Lockheed P-38 saved from an icy tomb is now the star attraction in a previously quiet Kentucky town.
March 2004 | By Carl Hoffman

Chief technician Hanspeter Sennhauser smiles through the cockpit’s spacious greenhouse windscreen.

The only thing more durable than these Junkers Ju 52s are the mountains over which they now fly sightseers.
May 2004 | By Linda Shiner

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