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Air Recreation

Leisure activities and hobbies related to aviation such as air racing, stunt flying, skydiving and air shows
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The show opened with a parachute drop of a portrait of Mustafa Kemal, whose words "The future is in the skies" inspire the air force.

Young Turks

The Turkish Air Demo team is winning friends at home with its seven Northrop F-5s.
January 2002 | By Roger A. Mola

In the Pacific theater of World War II, naval bombers like the Privateer carried the little airplane-like Bat aloft, then released it to find its way, via radar, to its target.

Restoration: The Bat

ASM-N-2 Guided Missle
January 2002 | By Jim Sweeney

Flights & Fancy: When Pigs Fly

An ingenious new use for an old Cessna.
January 2002 | By Richard Sassaman

Restoration: Unearthing a Diamond

The Diamond is the only one of its kind ever built.
November 2001 | By Becki Bell

Stupid Plane Tricks

Breathes there the pilot with soul so dead who never to himself hath said, "I bet I can fly under that bridge"?
November 2001 | By Phil Scott

Unbreakable

World War II aircraft that were shot to hell—and came back.
November 2001 | By Cory Graff

In the Museum: Smokers Welcome

November 2001 | By Diane Tedeschi

Moments & Milestones: Adventures of a Flight Recorder

November 2001 | By Mike Pablo

That '70s Airshow

Business, babes, and barnstormers. For awhile, Reading, Pennsylvania, had it all.
September 2001 | By Roger Mola

Airports of Call

The choicest sites for airplane watching.
September 2001 | By Russell Munson

In the Museum: The Coming Out Party

September 2001 | By Diane Tedeschi

Restoration: Homecoming

Handley Page Halifax under restoration in Canada.
July 2001 | By J. Douglas Hinton

Dog of War

Think of Yankee Lima Four Two as a time machine: Jump in and you're back in Vietnam.
July 2001 | By Stephan Wilkinson

In the Museum: Over 50 and Fabulous

July 2001 | By Richard P. Hallion

The ultimate in point jets, the Starfighter is not for the faint of heart, be it pilot or audience.

The Fastest Show on Earth

How two Lockheed F-104 Starfighters became airshow stars.
May 2001 | By Carl Hoffman

Restoration: Grande Dame

The Lockheed L-1649A Starliner gets a makeover.
May 2001 | By John Sotham

A rugged amphibian, the Grumman G-21 served both commercial airlines and militaries alike.  The U.S. Coast Guard flew the JRF version as a transport and anti-submarine aircraft.

In the Museum: Beautiful Goose

May 2001 | By F. Robert van der Linden

The frigid and oxygen-poor water of Norway

Restoration: Desperate Journey

A Junkers Ju 88 is pulled from a Norwegian lake.
March 2001 | By Douglas Hinton

During the summer of 1942, this Macchi Folgore fighter was operating out of Libya as part of 4 Stormo, 10 Gruppo, 90 Squadriglia.  Formed in 1940, the 4 Stormo was credited with 500 victories.  The fighter

In the Museum: Italian Lighting

March 2001 | By Robert C. Mikesh

Moments & Milestones: Tiger Beat

March 2001 | By Bruce Bohannon


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