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The FAA classifies the Osprey as a "powered lift" aircraft-neither airplane nor rotorcraft.

You might say that Osprey pilots are neither fish nor fowl.
September 2007 | By John Croft

Putting away a ScanEagle after a flight over the Al Anbar Province of Iraq in August 2006.

When it comes to operating UAVs, six heads aren't better than one.
August 2007 | By Joe Pappalardo

INA the Macon Belle will roar through the skies over Columbus, Ohio, along with dozens of other Mustang beauties.

This September a super-size squadron of P-51s will relive the legend.
August 2007 | By Stephen Joiner

William Holloman during his World War II flying days.

This World War II veteran loved flying all airplanes, but especially the Mustang.
August 2007 | By Diane Tedeschi

How a milk run from an aircraft carrier nearly killed me.
May 2007 | By Chris McKenna

A tour of Eighth Air Force history wouldn

A writer searches southern England for traces of a legendary World War II air force.
March 2007 | By John Fleischman

Aluminum Overcast.

Where to see B-17s and Mustangs for yourself.
March 2007 | By Allison Hagerman

Steam-powered catapults, expensive and difficult to maintain, are operating near their limits and will not be able to accommodate heavier aircraft planned for the future.

From zero to 150 in less than a second.
January 2007 | By Tim Wright

Wildcats were dispatched in divisions of four to protect their aircraft carriers and other ships from Japan

In the wreckage of a Wildcat lay clues to what happened in a famous World War II dogfight.
January 2007 | By Ralph Wetterhahn

A KC-135 Stratotanker refuels an F-16 Fighting Falcon in the skies over New Mexico. (DoD photo by Senior Airman Jeffrey Allen, USAF)

The Air Force looks for economy at the pump.
September 2006 | By Mike Harbour

X-35B short-takeoff and vertical-landing (STOVL) aircraft displayed at the National Air and Space Museum

The fighter of the future comes to the Hazy Center.
November 2006 | By airspacemag.com

The X-35A, built to validate propulsion and flying qualities for the Joint Strike Fighter, takes flight in October 2000.

How a team of engineers and a crash diet saved the Joint Strike Fighter.
November 2006 | By Joe Pappalardo

Debuting in 1915, the petite French Nieuport 11 fighter was based on the design of several pre-war racers.

Portraits of military aviation's first fleet.
November 2006 | By airspacemag.com

VERA, in her original glory, leads a group of Me 262s, captured by the U.S. Air Force, as they taxi for takeoff from the airfield at Lechfeld, Germany, in 1945.

November 2006 | By Douglas Gantenbein

Like a whale in a tanning salon, a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy bakes under a bank of heat lamps in the main chamber, which was enlarged in 1968 to accommodate the Air Force

Because airplanes must fly in the real world, the Air Force built a fake one.
May 2006 | By Ed Regis

A fleet of PV-1s race over the Bering Sea toward Japan. Jettisoning into the water meant death in 10 minutes. On land, it took longer.

A wrecked bomber in Russia memorializes a World War II battle for the North Pacific.
March 2006 | By Ralph Wetterhahn

His staff shot men and machines—here, a ship

With museum-quality photographs, Edward Steichen showed the world what it was like to be a sailor at war.
March 2006 | By T.A. Heppenheimer

How zeppelin bombers during World War I terrorized the British-and their own German crews.
January 2006 | By Nicholas Nirgiotis

An Iraqi Air Force C-130 gets a thumbs-up from a U.S. Air Force crew chief during a July 2005 mission from Ali Air Base.

New pilots, new government.
July 2006 | By George C. Larson

Cold war B-52s flew an icy northern route on alert for a Soviet missile strike.

Cold war B-52s flew an icy northern route on alert for a Soviet missile strike.
September 2006 | By Bill Robinson

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