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Pair of F9F-5 Panthers

Panthers At Sea

U.S. Navy Panthers weren’t highly evolved, but they could shoot. And they were air conditioned.
June 2013 | By David Noland

The Navy Gets a Panther

It wasn’t the flashiest jet fighter, but the Grumman F9F was a rugged little aircraft that did everything asked of it.
May 20, 2013 | By Diane Tedeschi

John Scanlan

Hornet Babies

“Back in the old Marine Corps...”
April 2013 | By John Scanlan

An F-106A Delta Dart aircraft passes over the Mojave Desert while en route to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., where it will be used in the QF-106 drone program. The aircraft, which was the second-to-last F-106 in active service, had been used as a safety chase aircraft in the B-1B aircraft production acceptance flight test program.

Why don’t today’s fighters have narrow waists?

March 25, 2013 | By Paul Hoversten

Taming the Viper

At Luke Air Force Base, young pilots learn to fly the F-16.
January 11, 2013 | By The Editors

The X-47 Ships Out

The Navy’s unmanned combat aircraft makes a historic takeoff, and prepares for carrier trials at sea.
December 06, 2012 | By John M. Doyle

The Smithsonian Roadshow

Can’t make it to the Museum? There might be an artifact on loan right in your neighborhood.
November 2012 | By Heather Goss

Why are the Eurofighter’s wingtips different?

September 05, 2012 | By Paul Hoversten

America by Air

Summer at the Smithsonian

Planning a visit to the Museum? We provide some helpful hints.
July 2012 | By Rebecca Maksel

Eurofighter Typhoon

Europe’s Typhoon Fighter

For the first time since World War II, fighters are stationed at RAF Northolt.
July 2012 | By Carl Posey

When he steps away from his astronaut duties at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, David Wolf can often be found flying aerobatic maneuvers in his Christen Eagle.

My Other Vehicle Was a Spacecraft

Now that the space shuttle has retired, astronauts are rediscovering the joys of flying airplanes.
July 2012 | By Phil Scott

A pilot

Under the Eurofighter’s Hood

Europe’s frontline fighter is a marvel of technology.
May 21, 2012 | By Carl Posey

Gilbert Hooker with navigator Ron Dunn

The Man My Mother Fell in Love With

When the Navy retired the Tomcat, my father went with it.
January 2012 | By Brad Hooker

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

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

Tragedy at Reno

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

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

The prone-pilot Gloster Meteor testbed

Oldies and Oddities: Lying Down on the Job

Piloting in the prone position
September 2011 | By Graham Chandler

Last of the Few

The Battle of Britain in the words of the pilots who won it.
August 01, 2011 | By The Editors


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