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In 1964, a trio of RA-5Cs had central Florida covered.

The North American RA-5C Vigilante.
November 2002 | By Robert F. Dorr

The Lockheed SR-71.

November 2002 | By Diane Tedeschi

A former South Vietnamese Air Force commander shares his military experiences in a new book.
September 2002 | By Nguyen Cao Ky

Grand miscalculations, unknown odds, miserable weather, vast distances—and unlikely adversaries.
September 2002 | By Carl Posey

July 2002 | By Stuart Nixon

With surgical precision, the AC-130H pinpointed targets, even enemy soldiers who had infiltrated friendly positions.

How they put the "A" in the AC-47.
July 2002 | By Marshall Michel

A talk with the Air Force historian.
May 2008 | By Patricia Trenner

July 2002 | By Mary Collins

Arthur Tomassetti is go for Mission X in the X-35B.

May 2002 | By Major Arthur Tomassetti

Memorable flights, and other adventures.
May 2008 | By William Campenni

In a typical two-ship formation, B-1Bs fly a 1998 training mission near Meteor Crater in Arizona, one of the few holes in the ground bigger than a B-1 could make.

Too trouble-prone for nuclear alert and sidelined in the first Gulf War, the B-1 is today the busiest bomber in the fleet.
May 2008 | By David Noland

The Learfan combined all-composite structure with two turboshaft engines driving a single pusher prop through a gearbox.

Some say that Beech and Raytheon's turboprop failed because it tried too much, too soon.
September 2004 | By Mark Huber

ShinMaywa’s US-1A, cleansed of the corrosive sea after every mission, continues an ancestral line of flying boats.

Japan has one godzilla of a seaplane.
January 2003 | By Tim Wright

The Quiet One had a forward-looking infrared (FLIR) camera on its belly that helped the pilots navigate at night.

The secret aircraft that helped the CIA tap phones in North Vietnam.
March 2008 | By James R. Chiles

A Hawker Hurricane Mark IIC is on permanent display at the National Air and Space Museum

Aviation historian Ron Dick takes a closer look at an old warbird.
March 01, 2008 | By Diane Tedeschi

Staff Sergeant Robin Walker (left) reports no foreign objects in the inlets to Staff Sergeant Greg Slavik piror to takeoff from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.

What we learned about stealth technology from the combat career of the F-117.
January 2008 | By Bill Sweetman

What airplane came in a little box and never flew?
January 2008 | By Patricia Trenner

The B-17 Memphis Belle.

Our pick of the best books and memoirs on World War II aviation.
November 01, 2007 | By Richard P. Hallion

The three X-15s shared a hangar with lifting bodies (first three on left) at Edwards Air Force Base during the golden age of flight research.

Life came at you fast when you flew the X-15.
November 2007 | By Peter Garrison

From A UH-1N Huey helicopter, Corporal Andy Vistrand, a "Gunrunner" in Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 269, scans the countryside of Anbar province from behind a .50-caliber machine gun.

From Al Asad Air Base, portraits of U.S. aircraft and crews in the fourth year of fighting.
November 2007 | By the Editors

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