Military Aviation
International military aviation programs and the U.S. military, including the Air Force, Marines, Army and Navy
The Luftwaffe’s Flying Wing
The Horten Ho 229 is on the short list for restoration at the Air and Space Museum.
January 11, 2010 |
By Rebecca Maksel
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
Thanks For the Memories
Air crews recall their service as roadies for Bob Hope's USO show.
January 2010 |
By Rebecca Maksel
Legends of Vietnam: Super Tweet
Yeah. The A-37 was small. So was Napoleon.
January 2010 |
By Stephen Joiner
Restoration: Kentucky Panther
Grumman's first jet honors a son of the Bluegrass State.
January 2010 |
By Barrett Tillman
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
Batstrike!
A loud thud. A shower of purple-white sparks. This can't be good.
December 14, 2009 |
By Randy Gordon
Saturn, Selenokhod, and Scott Speicher
Today's offering is a post-Thanksgiving smorgasbord of stories (okay, I'll stop with the alliteration).
First, a lovely NASA video of an aurora shimmering above Saturn, with commentary by Caltech planetary scientist Andy Ingersoll, who's been exploring the outer solar system since the Pioneer 10 ...
November 30, 2009 |
By Tony Reichhardt
Little, Big
Size matters. (Well, at least in the surveillance world.)And three projects under way take dimensions to whole new lengths. The LEMV (it stands for Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle) is a mammoth hybrid airship championed by the U.S. Army as part of a future fleet of reconnaissance vehicles...
November 17, 2009 |
By Rebecca Maksel
Have Jokes, Will Travel
Backstage stories from Bob Hope’s USO tours.
November 17, 2009 |
By Rebecca Maksel
Panther Paint Job
Watch a 57-year-old warbird go from Winona rags to Blue Angel royalty.
November 17, 2009 |
By Michael Klesius
India's Reincarnated Aircraft Carrier
According to a report in Flight International, India’s defense ministry is buying Russian-built MiG-29K fighters as "part of a 2004 order...that was incorporated into a deal for the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov.”Wait—India has an aircraft carrier?That navy workhorse, the aircraft carrier, has ...
November 12, 2009 |
By Rebecca Maksel
A Joyride Through the Grand Canyon
They wouldn't be allowed to do it today, but back in 1959, experienced military pilots would sometimes buzz the Grand Canyon when flying out of nearby Nellis AFB. At the time, RAF pilot Ron Dick was an exchange officer with the US Air Force, training students in a Lockheed T-33. Fellow instructor B...
November 04, 2009 |
By Tony Reichhardt
"Whatever you do, DON'T pull the striped handl..."
Last Wednesday, an as-yet-unnamed joyrider in a South African Air Force Pilatus PC-7 Mk. II turboprop inadvertently triggered his ejection seat while over Langebaanweg Air Force Base in the Western Cape Province. The passenger was blasted through the canopy within seconds, much to the astonishment ...
November 02, 2009 |
By Pat Trenner
Prairie Wind
In Nowheresville, Nebraska, the Air Force learned a thing or two about turbulence.
November 2009 |
By Dave Manoucheri
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
The First U.S. Military Pilot
A hundred years ago today, the U.S. military got its first pilot. On October 26, 1909, Frederick E. Humphreys, a 26-year-old Lieutenant with the Army Signal Corps, soloed for the first time in a Wright Flyer at College Park, Maryland, under the watchful eye of no less an instructor than Wilbur Wrig...
October 26, 2009 |
By Tony Reichhardt
Video: Airborne laser test
Boeing and the U.S. Air Force have been busy this summer testing the Advanced Tactical Laser, a high-power directed energy weapon mounted on a C-130H Hercules transport.In this August 30 test at New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range , the laser was fired at a target for the first time, with the fo...
October 02, 2009 |
By Tony Reichhardt
