US Military Aviation
Save the Blimp Base
From this Naval air station airships hunted U-boats in the Florida Keys.
September 2001 |
By John Sotham
Dog of War
Think of Yankee Lima Four Two as a time machine: Jump in and you're back in Vietnam.
July 2001 |
By Stephan Wilkinson
Predator: First Watch
Lesson learned: never send a man to do a machine's job.
May 2001 |
By Linda Shiner
Fishing for Saint-Ex
There's something down there. And it may be Antoine De Saint-Exupéry's P-38.
May 2001 |
By Joseph Harriss
One Balloon Bomber (Slightly Used)
First it carried a Japanese bomb 5,000 miles across the Pacific. Then it carried Don Piccard across Minneapolis.
May 2001 |
By Don Piccard
Made in the U.S.S.R.
Of course they copied it. The two airplanes could have been twins. But was the Soviets' Tu-4 truly an exact duplicate of the Boeing B-29?
March 2001 |
By Von Hardesty
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
