Aircraft Types
Powered and unpowered aircraft, including fixed-wing, hybrid, rotary and lighter-than-airDog 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
The Fastest Show on Earth
How two Lockheed F-104 Starfighters became airshow stars.
May 2001 |
By Carl Hoffman
Hill Climb
Why General Electric put an airplane engine on a truck and drove it to the top of Pikes Peak.
May 2001 |
By Donald Sherman
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
The Hammer
For every airplane, there's a region of the flight envelope into which it dare not fly.
March 2001 |
By Peter Garrison
Restoration: Desperate Journey
A Junkers Ju 88 is pulled from a Norwegian lake.
March 2001 |
By Douglas Hinton
High Tension
Helicopter pilots play chicken with high-voltage power lines so crews can work on live wires.
March 2001 |
By James R. Chiles
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
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
