Military Aviation
International military aviation programs and the U.S. military, including the Air Force, Marines, Army and Navy
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
Nguyen Van Bay and the Aces From the North
As an F-4 Phantom pilot, I had tried to kill these men. And they had tried to kill me. I thought it was time we had a talk.
November 2000 |
By Ralph Wetterhahn
Bomb Squad
How airborne detectives collect evidence from a cloud of atomic debris.
July 2000 |
By James Schultz
Alone and Unarmed
As unpiloted craft take over the reconnaissance mission, an intelligence insider looks back on the work that set recce pilots apart.
March 2000 |
By Dino A. Brugioni
The Coldest Warriors
Tales from the corridors of an agency so secret that officially it didn't exist.
January 2000 |
By William E. Burrows
The Real X-Jet
From Transformers to the X-Men, the Blackbird is still Hollywood's favorite futuristic jet. Here's the real story of its birth.
March 01, 1999 |
By William E. Burrows
