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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

Above & Beyond: Milk Run

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

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

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

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

The Grumman Cats

Just under nine lives that created a company legend.
September 2006 | By Brian Nicklas

Star Quality

How did we love the Tomcat? On the 20th anniversary of Top Gun, we count the ways.
September 2006 | By The Editors

Tales of the F-14

More recollections of the fabled fighter.
September 2006 | By airspacemag.com

Radical for its day, the Douglas Skyray looked even more exotic bedecked in the stars-and-deep blue of the Navy

Beautiful Climber

In the summer of '58, nothing was faster to 50,000 feet.
July 2006 | By Carl Posey

His staff shot men and machines—here, a ship

Steichen's Navy

With museum-quality photographs, Edward Steichen showed the world what it was like to be a sailor at war.
March 2006 | By T.A. Heppenheimer

A fleet of PV-1s race over the Bering Sea toward Japan. Jettisoning into the water meant death in 10 minutes. On land, it took longer.

Fire and Ice

A wrecked bomber in Russia memorializes a World War II battle for the North Pacific.
March 2006 | By Ralph Wetterhahn

Rotary Club

In the populous acreage of an aircraft carrier, the corner occupied by helo pilots is small, scrappy, and loud.
January 2006 | By Carl Hoffman

The IFLOLS aboard the USS George Washington.

The Meatball

Pilots who make it safely to the deck of an aircraft carrier have seen the light.
May 2005 | By Sam Goldberg

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The Hotrod Squad

There's hardly a combat mission that the A-4 Skyhawk hasn't flown.
July 2004 | By Graham Chandler

Night Stalkers

U.S. soldiers in Vietnam heard rumors of ghosts; the Viet Cong chalked it up to bad luck.
May 2004 | By Roger Warner

In 1964, a trio of RA-5Cs had central Florida covered.

Restoration: Mach 2 Heavyweight Champion

The North American RA-5C Vigilante.
November 2002 | By Robert F. Dorr

A live-fire test on a North American F-86. During the Vietnam War, engineers looked for ways to toughen aircraft against ground fire and surface-to-air missiles.

Shoot 'Em Up

Sometimes you have to destroy the aircraft in order to save it.
November 2002 | By Carl Hoffman

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

All and Nothing

After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese planned to strike the United States with aircraft borne by giant submarines. If it worked, the Atlantic fleet would be trapped.
November 2001 | By Thomas S. Momiyama

The Avengers

They torpedoed enemy ships during World War II. Now they fight fire.
November 2001 | By Marshall Lumsden


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