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An F-15 Eagle heads out to the range over Nellis Air Force Base during a Red Flag exercise in 2006.

Combat U.

Learning the art of the dogfight at Red Flag.
February 04, 2010 | By Randy Gordon

The Douglas marketing team used this model to present the 1211-J to the U.S. Air Force in 1950

The Do-Everything Bomber

With its bid to replace the Convair B-36 bomber, did Douglas promise too much?
January 2010 | By John Aldaz and Sir George Cox

John Magda (mounting his Blue Angel Panther in 1950)

Restoration: Kentucky Panther

Grumman's first jet honors a son of the Bluegrass State.
January 2010 | By Barrett Tillman

The Air Force hopes its unmanned X-37

Space Shuttle Jr.

After 2010, the only spaceplane in the U.S. inventory will be the Air Force's mysterious X-37.
January 2010 | By Michael Klesius

An Air Force T-38A trainer over Texas.

Batstrike!

A loud thud. A shower of purple-white sparks. This can't be good.
December 14, 2009 | By Randy Gordon

Prairie Wind

In Nowheresville, Nebraska, the Air Force learned a thing or two about turbulence.
November 2009 | By Dave Manoucheri

A P-38J-5-LO (foreground), a late Lightning variant, flies with an F-5, a later photo-recon version of the P-38. Only a handful of P-38s are flying today. Duckypoo may one day join them, if not in the air, then perhaps on the ground.

Can This P-38 Be Saved?

Lockheed P-38 Lightnings brought many a pilot home. This pilot would like to return the favor.
November 2009 | By David F. Toomey

F-16s from the Ohio Air National Guard patrol over Iraq during Operation Northern Watch in 2002.

Over the No-Fly Zone

Patrolling over northern Iraq in 2001 felt like driving through a small town with Hell's Angels.
September 22, 2009 | By Randy Gordon

STS-27 on its way to orbit in December 1988.

Secret Space Shuttles

When you’re 200 miles up, it’s easy to hide what you’re up to.
August 2009 | By Michael Cassutt

Boeing B-47

The Dawn of Discipline

A B-47 pilot remembers when an airplane—and Curtis LeMay—stiffened the spine of the Strategic Air Command
July 2009 | By Walter J. Boyne

Air Force Col. Arnie Bunch, vice commander of Eglin

Goodwill Mission

To residents of Florida’s Gulf Coast, the Joint Strike Fighter says “Won’t you be my neighbor?”
April 24, 2009 | By Richard P. Hallion

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

Thuds, the Ridge, and 100 Missions North

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

Memphis Belle

Restoration: The Memphis Belle

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

With mops and a hose, a crew scrubs a Martin B-26 Marauder bomber in 1944.

Then & Now: Wash Day

November 2008 | By Roger A. Mola

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

A & S Interview: Brig. Gen. Brooks Bash

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

The kids sent me letters.

Letter From Bagram

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

The P-47D carried eight guns and, on some models, rocket launchers.

Book Excerpt: Hell Hawks!

How P-47s became the tank busters of World War II
July 14, 2008 | By Robert F. Dorr and Thomas D. Jones

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

Detect and Direct

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

A bridge overpass in the bucolic East German countryside would have been the primary target for a flight of four Fairchild anti-tank A-10s on a 1987 cold war mission. The bridge still stands.

Above & Beyond: The Bridge that Did Not Fall

Memorable flights and other adventures
July 2008 | By Darrel Whitcomb

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.

The Bone is Back

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


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