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Military Aviation

International military aviation programs and the U.S. military, including the Air Force, Marines, Army and Navy
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A week after the "Battle of Niihau," Allied forces moved in to disassemble the Zero to learn what made it tick. The process was documented by Presbyterian minister Paul Denise, who gave his hundreds of photos to the U.S. Navy.

The Niihau Zero

Pieces of Pearl Harbor's lone surviving Zero tell of a violent clash of cultures and a race for technology.
July 2007 | By Nick D'Alto

Seeing a Zero in the air is a rare treat, but if collectors have their way, more like this one could take wing in coming years.

Hunting Zeros

Finding an airworthy Zero is not easy these days. In fact, you can count them on one hand.
July 2007 | By Roger Mola

Pine Island, anchored off Antarctica during Operation Highjump, prepare a PBM-5 Mariner for flight during a snowstorm.

Operation Highjump

A year after World War II ended, the U.S. Navy mounted a massive-though hastily planned-mission to the bottom of the world.
July 2007 | By Paul Hoversten

Trapped inside an ice cave in 1992, the P-38 looked helpless despite its fearsome weapons.

Glacier Girl: The Back Story

How it got trapped in the ice, and how it got out.
July 2007 | By airspacemag.com

Majors Ian McLean (Snowbird 1), Cory Blakely (Snowbird 3) and Chris Hope (Snowbird 5) meet fans and sign autographs.

Book Excerpt: "Snowbirds"

An ex-member of the Canadian team recalls his time on the tour.
May 2007 | By Steve Will

Snowbirds perform gasp-inducing maneuvers like the Four-Way Cross.

The Moose Jaw Nine

What the Canadian Snowbirds have that the Navy's Blue Angels don't.
May 2007 | By Graham Chandler

Above & Beyond: Milk Run

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

A tour of Eighth Air Force history wouldn

In the Footsteps of the Mighty Eighth

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

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

Mystery on Guadalcanal

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

The Soviets

The Thin Aluminum Line

Supersonic airplanes and a screen of radar stood ready during the cold war to avert the end of the world.
January 2007 | By Carl Posey

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.

How Things Work: Electromagnetic Catapults

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

"Glacier Girl" at the Nellis AFB Airshow, November 2006.

Glacier Girl, Interrupted

Sixty-five years after its first attempt, the restored Lightning should finally reach England next year.
January 2007 | By Larry Lowe

Battle of Pearl Harbor and the Malay Coast

Are there any photos of Japan's World War II "invasion fleet?"

How to hide thousands of airplanes.
January 01, 2007 | By Joe Pappalardo

Visitors wait at Los Angeles International Airport to tour the new Pan Am Jet Clipper Liberty Bell, grounded during Skyshield II in October, 1961.

The Day Nobody Flew

September 11, 2001 wasn't the first time U.S. air traffic was grounded.
November 2006 | By Roger A. Mola

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.

Stormbird

November 2006 | By Douglas Gantenbein

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

Weight Watchers

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

Above & Beyond: A Bougainville Mystery

November 2006 | By Paul A. Roales

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

The X-35 on Display

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

Feathers ruffled, a "Turkey" rests on the deck of the Harry S. Truman while a Sikorsky MH-60S Knighthawk hoists in supplies for the carrier population.

Tomcat Tribute

The Navy's fearsome fighter retires.
September 2006 | By The Editors

Swing Wings

It's all done with computers (and good old-fashioned hydraulics).
September 2006 | By Joe Pappalardo


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