Bombers
Monster Bomber
At the Pima Air and Space Museum, the B-36 is the largest U.S. warplane ever rebuilt.
August 2010 |
By The Editors
Inside the Enola Gay
Close-up photographs of the legendary World War II aircraft.
May 18, 2010 |
By The Editors
The Do-Everything Bomber
With its bid to replace the Convair B-36 bomber, did Douglas promise too much?
January 2010 |
By John Aldaz and Sir George Cox
The Dawn of Discipline
A B-47 pilot remembers when an airplane—and Curtis LeMay—stiffened the spine of the Strategic Air Command
July 2009 |
By Walter J. Boyne
Too Much, Too Soon
July 2009 | By General Robert L. Cardenas, U.S. Air Force (Ret.) As told to James P. Busha
The Last to Die
The war in the Pacific ended as it began, with a surprise attack by Japanese warplanes.
November 2008 |
By Stephen Harding
Restoration: The Memphis Belle
For this famous B-17, surviving 25 missions in World War II was the easy part.
November 2008 |
By Mark Bernstein
Portrait of the Enemy
Photographs taken from the world’s first warplanes changed the course of battle.
September 2008 |
By Robin White
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
Lake Murray's Mitchell
For a B-25, it was a short flight and a 62-year layover.
January 2007 |
By Kay Gordon
A Hard Day's Night
Cold war B-52s flew an icy northern route on alert for a Soviet missile strike.
September 2006 |
By Bill Robinson
Fire and Ice
A wrecked bomber in Russia memorializes a World War II battle for the North Pacific.
March 2006 |
By Ralph Wetterhahn
Midnight Raiders
How zeppelin bombers during World War I terrorized the British-and their own German crews.
January 2006 |
By Nicholas Nirgiotis
Speed Freak
In the 1950s, the Mach 2+ B-58 Hustler seemed a safe bet to win the arms race.
January 2006 |
By Dale Smith
A Full Retaliatory Response
When President John Kennedy contemplated nuclear war, what went through the minds of the U.S. bomber crews?
November 2005 |
By Thomas Jones
God Save the Vulcan!
The Royal Air Force Vulcan, immense cold war bomber and aerodynamic marvel, has been sentenced to permanent museum exhibition.
January 2004 |
By Craig Mellow
Exit Strategy
Target: Soviet weapons plant. Mission: Low-altitude bombing. Payload: Nuclear. Problem: Getting back.
May 2003 |
By Marshall Michel
