International Military Aviation
Restoration: Homecoming
Handley Page Halifax under restoration in Canada.
July 2001 |
By J. Douglas Hinton
One Balloon Bomber (Slightly Used)
First it carried a Japanese bomb 5,000 miles across the Pacific. Then it carried Don Piccard across Minneapolis.
May 2001 |
By Don Piccard
Don't Mess With Switzerland
To the world's most formidable natural defenses, the Swiss have added F/A-18 Hornets and a new slant on neutrality.
March 2001 |
By Carl Posey
Restoration: Desperate Journey
A Junkers Ju 88 is pulled from a Norwegian lake.
March 2001 |
By Douglas Hinton
Made in the U.S.S.R.
Of course they copied it. The two airplanes could have been twins. But was the Soviets' Tu-4 truly an exact duplicate of the Boeing B-29?
March 2001 |
By Von Hardesty
Memories of Kosovo
A helicopter pilot recalls his peacekeeping tour of duty over one of the world's most strife-torn regions.
January 2001 |
By Jonathan Knaul
The Christmas Bombing
In December 1972, the B-52 bombers that North Vietnamese missile crews had been waiting for came to Hanoi. Night after night. Over virtually the same track.
January 2001 |
By Marshall Michel
"My Body Will Collapse Like a Falling Cherry Blossom"
Memoirs of a suicide squadron survivor.
May 1991 |
By Hatsuho Naito
