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Before each mission, ground crews fed the Thunderchief’s 20-mm Gatling gun with ammunition.

How the Republic F-105 got good at a mission it was not designed to fly.
March 2009 | By Carl Posey

It's an addiction. Admitting you have it is the first step.
December 03, 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

Because France and Spain would not grant the United States overfly rights, the 1986 F-111 raid on Libya required a lengthy detour.

January 2009 | By James A. Jimenez

Dressed in drone livery, QF-4s are targeted during weapons testing. The testing is done at two Air Force bases, Tyndall in Florida and Holloman in New Mexico. F-4s replaced converted F-106s as the military’s drone of choice. Also droned in their time: F-86 and F-100 fighters and F-102 interceptors.

How a fighter-bomber-recon-attack superstar ended up as fodder for target practice.
January 2009 | By Ralph Wetterhahn

Tuskegee cadets gather at a formal assembly. The first graduating class is seated in the front row.

World War II's black pilots had two war to fight.
November 1989 | By Louis R. Purnell

Memoirs of a suicide squadron survivor.
May 1991 | By Hatsuho Naito

By the end of the war, Sabre pilots had attained a kill ratio of 10 to 1 against MiG-15s. Most of the aerial warfare took place along the Yalu River in an area nicknamed MiG Alley.

Memoirs of Korea by an acclaimed novelist.
November 1991 | By James Salter

A B-57 crew faced the end of the world.
January 1994 | By Edwards Park

Memphis Belle

For this famous B-17, surviving 25 missions in World War II was the easy part.
November 2008 | By Mark Bernstein

Sea Harrier landing. THAT

November 2008 | By TIM WRIGHT

ouija board

Think of a shipboard chess game with airplanes instead of pawns.
November 2008 | By Mark Wolverton

Before flying on a B-32, Marchione (front, second from right) had been on a B-24 Liberator crew that included his buddies Rudy Nudo and Frank Pallone (front, second and third from left, respectively).

The war in the Pacific ended as it began, with a surprise attack by Japanese warplanes.
November 2008 | By Stephen Harding

The kids sent me letters.

Occasional dispatches from our man in Afghanistan.
August 15, 2008 | By John Sotham

One of only two XF-90s ever built.

Between the F-80 and the F-104, a supersonic pioneer fought the Cold War...in its own way.
July 2008 | By Jorge and Karen Escalona

A gaggle of Hawkeyes operating out of the Naval Air Facility in Atsugi, Japan, takes to the air during a training mission.

The Navy's newest Hawkeye gets closer to the fight.
July 2008 | By Preston Lerner

September 2008 | By Richard G. Woodhull, Jr.

Brooks Bash (center) oversees the training of Iraqi pilots and ground crew.

A talk with the commander of the Air Force transition team in Iraq.
September 2008 | By Paul Hoversten

The book that robbed the enemy of his secrets. A key to shapes shows a circle can be a haystack or a gun emplacement.

Photographs taken from the world’s first warplanes changed the course of battle.
September 2008 | By Robin White

Heir to the P-47, the A-10 Thunderbolt II is a purpose-built CAS aircraft, one of many types Marines can call on in a jam.

On the ground with Marines in Afghanistan, the author sees a different side of close air support.
September 2008 | By Ed Darack

At Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, a study subject is wired for a spin in the Dynamic Environment Simulator, a centrifuge that excels in inducing spatial disorientation.

Despite the best training and technology, why do pilots still die from not knowing which end is up?
September 2008 | By Tom LeCompte

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