Jet Aircraft
A Bell That Didn't Ring
Turns out that jets are like waffles: The U.S. Army Air Forces was tempted to throw its first one away.
September 2005 |
By William E. Burrows
White Rocket
How all U.S. Air Force pilots since 1968 have met their Mach.
September 2005 |
By Peter Garrison
Debrief: Hyper-X
Scramjet power? Simple: Keep a match lit in a 7,000-mph wind.
July 2005 |
By Michael Milstein
The U-Deuce
The secret to a spyplane's eternal youth is a new suite of gadgets installed on a classic chassis.
March 2005 |
By William E. Burrows
Pony Power
What do you call a Temco TT-1 Pinto trainer with a new engine? A rare breed with a lot of giddyup-and-go.
March 2005 |
By Jay Miller
Send in the Global Hawk
In combat trials, the RQ-4A unmanned reconnaissance aircraft showed intelligence analysts what it means to have eyes like a Hawk.
January 2005 |
By John Croft
Crown Jewels
What gives the restored warbirds of the Flying Heritage Collection their sparkle?
November 2004 |
By Peter Garrison
The Mystery of the Lost Clipper
The Civil Aeronautics Board and the FBI abandoned the case 47 years ago, but two amateur detectives are still searching for the cause of the crash of Pan Am 944.
September 2004 |
By Gregg Herken with Ken Fortenberry
The 30 Billion Dollar Man
Seddik Belyamani wrote the book on selling passenger jets.
July 2004 |
By Bill Sweetman
The Hotrod Squad
There's hardly a combat mission that the A-4 Skyhawk hasn't flown.
July 2004 |
By Graham Chandler
The Need for Speed
Everything is in place for the development of a supersonic business jet-except U.S. Federal Aviation Regulations.
March 2004 |
By Ron Swanada
Electro- mechanical Deicing
Ice kills. That's why engineers continue to invent new ways to keep it off airplane wings.
March 2004 |
By Tim Wright
My Ride on the Concorde
A museum curator goes along for one last transatlantic voyage.
March 2004 |
By Robert van der Linden
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
Celestial Body
De Havilland's D.H. 106 Comet blazed the commercial jet trail but broke its nation's heart.
January 2004 |
By Phil Scott
Expert Witness
The EWO and the MIRV: Cold war talk for an RC-135 crew's lucky day.
November 2003 |
By Robert L. Brown
The Comet Affair
Why the cold war forced the British government to choose between keeping a friend and arming an enemy.
September 2003 |
By Jeffrey A. Engel
To Snatch a Sabre
Fifty years ago, North Korea's secret allies plotted to heist from the United States a North American F-86.
July 2003 |
By Ralph Wetterhahn
Exit Strategy
Target: Soviet weapons plant. Mission: Low-altitude bombing. Payload: Nuclear. Problem: Getting back.
May 2003 |
By Marshall Michel
