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The P-47D carried eight guns and, on some models, rocket launchers.

Book Excerpt: Hell Hawks!

How P-47s became the tank busters of World War II
July 14, 2008 | By Robert F. Dorr and Thomas D. Jones

A gaggle of Hawkeyes operating out of the Naval Air Facility in Atsugi, Japan, takes to the air during a training mission.

Detect and Direct

The Navy's newest Hawkeye gets closer to the fight.
July 2008 | By Preston Lerner

A bridge overpass in the bucolic East German countryside would have been the primary target for a flight of four Fairchild anti-tank A-10s on a 1987 cold war mission. The bridge still stands.

Above & Beyond: The Bridge that Did Not Fall

Memorable flights and other adventures
July 2008 | By Darrel Whitcomb

That Cessna (outside the bottom left hand corner of the lower building, at center) isn

Flights & Fancy: The El Toro Follies

Whimsy, nostalgia, and just plain mischief
July 2008 | By Michael Church

Police helicopters and ambulances at the Pentagon, September 11, 2001.

9/11: The Saga of the Skies

Chaos and control over Washington, while the Pentagon burned.
May 15, 2008 | By Lynn Spencer

A scene from the Army Signal Corps film "Aviation Training in the United States," shot in 1917-1918.

How They Trained

Rare archival footage shows Army pilots learning to fly Jennies in 1917.
May 05, 2008 | By Phillip W. Stewart

In a typical two-ship formation, B-1Bs fly a 1998 training mission near Meteor Crater in Arizona, one of the few holes in the ground bigger than a B-1 could make.

The Bone is Back

Too trouble-prone for nuclear alert and sidelined in the first Gulf War, the B-1 is today the busiest bomber in the fleet.
May 2008 | By David Noland

A & S Interview: Dick Anderegg

A talk with the Air Force historian.
May 2008 | By Patricia Trenner

From A UH-1N Huey helicopter, Corporal Andy Vistrand, a "Gunrunner" in Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 269, scans the countryside of Anbar province from behind a .50-caliber machine gun.

Air War Iraq

From Al Asad Air Base, portraits of U.S. aircraft and crews in the fourth year of fighting.
November 2007 | By the Editors

The B-17 Memphis Belle.

WWII: A Reader's Guide to the Air War

Our pick of the best books and memoirs on World War II aviation.
November 01, 2007 | By Richard P. Hallion

The developers of Cargolifter CL 160, a German design, used to say that their craft could carry 26,000 pounds of food to disaster victims. But the Cargolifter itself needs aid now; its parent company has declared bankruptcy.

Spy Blimps and Heavy Lifters

The latest thing in airships.
September 2007 | By Ben Iannotta

The FAA classifies the Osprey as a "powered lift" aircraft-neither airplane nor rotorcraft.

Tilters

You might say that Osprey pilots are neither fish nor fowl.
September 2007 | By John Croft

The Lightning II helmet being developed for the F-35.

How do military aircraft helmets track where a pilot is looking?

August 01, 2007 | By Joe Pappalardo

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

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


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