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Military, commercial and experimental vehicles designed for flight in the Earth’s atmosphere
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H-1 Borp! (Gotcha!) Bomber-Bomber

The Other Air Forces

Humorist Bruce McCall's small fleet of little-known aircraft.
January 2012 | By Bruce McCall

Voyager

From Point A to Point A

Twenty-five years ago, Burt Rutan’s Voyager became the first aircraft to make an around-the-world flight without refueling.
January 2012 | By George C. Larson, Member, NAA

Why do helicopter pilots sit in the right seat?

November 16, 2011 | By Paul Hoversten

Stay Tuned

A new emergency warning system will be tested on Wednesday -- 60 years after another radio network warned Americans of Cold War air raids.
November 07, 2011 | By Roger Mola

Bush flying has unique challenges. This Quest Kodiak gets a little extra thrust on takeoff from the slope of a dirt airstrip carved out of a hill in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Rough Riders

Five bushplanes and the places only they can fly.
November 2011 | By Tom LeCompte

Airman George Johnson (in a T-33 in late 1955) spent hundreds of hours maintaining Sabrejets and much less time flying one.

Mind If I Borrow It?

The day an Air Force mechanic commandeered a North American F-86.
November 2011 | By Paul D. Mather

At the 2002 Nellis Air Show near Las Vegas, a Sabre heads up an A team in a USAF Heritage Flight: (from left) P-51 Mustang, P-47 Thunderbolt, F-15 Eagle, P-38 Lightning, and TF-51.

Could You Fly a Sabre?

The challenge of handling a 1950s MiG killer.
November 2011 | By Paul Hoversten

When a Super Cub ran out of fuel and had to land on uninhabited Kayak lsland in Alaska last May, the pilot and passenger tried both low- and high-tech alerts. In addition to the “SOS,” they activated a SPOT beacon, and were rescued by the Coast Guard.

Lost in America

Airplanes that go missing are often untraceable. Why is effective tracking technology being ignored?
November 2011 | By Michael Behar

Leo Windecker’s proof-of- concept Fibaloy aircraft used fixed landing gear and aluminum control surfaces to cut down on development time and costs.

Just One Word: Plastics

The world's first all-composite airplane may fly again.
November 2011 | By Stephen Joiner

A 2010 flight of two F-15Es (here, a Strike Eagle in Afghanistan earlier this year) saved the lives of 30 coalition troops surrounded by 100 insurgents.

Moments & Milestones: Trophy Mission

Honors for a risky bombing run.
November 2011 | By George C. Larson, Member, NAA

Longshore in the command gunner position of his B-29.

The Other B-29 Missions

The big bomber's little-known errands of mercy.
October 27, 2011 | By Guy Longshore

Haunted Airfields

For Halloween, a collection of weird tales about airports and aircraft.
October 25, 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

Making MUSIC Together

Manned and Unmanned join forces in a training exercise.
September 30, 2011 | By John M. Doyle

Tragedy at Reno

What it was like in the pits that day.
September 19, 2011 | By Linda Shiner

In his flight jacket with 17th Bomb Group patch, Dick Cole looks ready to fly Panchito, a restored B-25J, at a Raider gathering in Punta Gorda, Florida, last March.

The Raiders Remember

In an annual ceremony, the last of the Doolittle Raiders recall their part in victory over Japan.
September 2011 | By Paul Hoversten

When seven men got stuck in a grim patch of Greenland in 1948, the Air Force sent a B-17 to rescue them, but it got mired in soft snow (top of montage), only worsening the predicament. The Air Force kept the men from starving by parachuting food and stove

Stranded

Four aircraft, 12 airmen, 25 days, 40 below zero, in the middle of nowhere.
September 2011 | By Edward Farmer

AeroVironment’s Global Observer (in California last year), designed to fly for a week on hydrogen, will triple the endurance of experimental, gas-powered UVAS from the late 1980s.

Distance Runners

Unmanned aerial vehicles redefine the term "nonstop flight."
September 2011 | By Michael Milstein

In 2004, salvagers pulled a Bell P-39 from a Siberian lake, where 60 years earlier pilot Ivan Baranovsky had crash-landed it.

Lieutenant Ivan Baranovsky’s P-39

An airacobra's journey to the eastern front...and back.
September 2011 | By Tim Wright

An emotional Gene Breiner (at lectern, with daughter Joyce and General Jack Dailey, director of the National Air and Space Museum) donated Plane Jane to the Museum this past June in hopes of inspiring future pilots.

In the Museum: A Fleet’s Final Flight

A civilian flight trainer enters the collections.
September 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

The prone-pilot Gloster Meteor testbed

Oldies and Oddities: Lying Down on the Job

Piloting in the prone position
September 2011 | By Graham Chandler


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