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Military Aircraft

Warplanes, including fighters, bombers, air tankers, surveillance aircraft and more
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wunderkind Erik Hokuf and a friend in Minnesota.

Restorative Genius

A young military airplane craftsman makes his mark.
July 2007 | By Bettina Haymann Chavanne

An F/A-18 Hornet lights its afterburners to leap from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.

How Things Work - Afterburners

Jets get no kick from champagne, but a little fuel in the tailpipe...
July 2007 | By Damond Benningfield

Trapped inside an ice cave in 1992, the P-38 looked helpless despite its fearsome weapons.

Glacier Girl: The Back Story

How it got trapped in the ice, and how it got out.
July 2007 | By airspacemag.com

Snowbirds perform gasp-inducing maneuvers like the Four-Way Cross.

The Moose Jaw Nine

What the Canadian Snowbirds have that the Navy's Blue Angels don't.
May 2007 | By Graham Chandler

Overhead lights at a factory in Santa Monica, California, are reflected in row upon row of Plexiglas noses destined for Douglas A-20 attack bombers.

300,000 Airplanes

Individual effort and mass production are equally represented in a new book celebrating World War II aircraft factories.
May 2007 | By The editors

Above & Beyond: Milk Run

How a milk run from an aircraft carrier nearly killed me.
May 2007 | By Chris McKenna

Northrop Flying Wing

And Then There Was One

Ten airplanes that are the last still flying.
March 2007 | By Stephen Joiner

Airline pilot Mark Watt flies Steve Craig

Interview: Steve Craig

Proud owner of the last flying Wildcat
March 2007 | By Diane Tedeschi

The C was the first B-25 with a navigator

Lake Murray's Mitchell

For a B-25, it was a short flight and a 62-year layover.
January 2007 | By Kay Gordon

Wildcats were dispatched in divisions of four to protect their aircraft carriers and other ships from Japan

Mystery on Guadalcanal

In the wreckage of a Wildcat lay clues to what happened in a famous World War II dogfight.
January 2007 | By Ralph Wetterhahn

The Soviets

The Thin Aluminum Line

Supersonic airplanes and a screen of radar stood ready during the cold war to avert the end of the world.
January 2007 | By Carl Posey

"Glacier Girl" at the Nellis AFB Airshow, November 2006.

Glacier Girl, Interrupted

Sixty-five years after its first attempt, the restored Lightning should finally reach England next year.
January 2007 | By Larry Lowe

VERA, in her original glory, leads a group of Me 262s, captured by the U.S. Air Force, as they taxi for takeoff from the airfield at Lechfeld, Germany, in 1945.

Stormbird

November 2006 | By Douglas Gantenbein

Debuting in 1915, the petite French Nieuport 11 fighter was based on the design of several pre-war racers.

The Great Warplanes

Portraits of military aviation's first fleet.
November 2006 | By airspacemag.com

The X-35A, built to validate propulsion and flying qualities for the Joint Strike Fighter, takes flight in October 2000.

Weight Watchers

How a team of engineers and a crash diet saved the Joint Strike Fighter.
November 2006 | By Joe Pappalardo

Above & Beyond: A Bougainville Mystery

November 2006 | By Paul A. Roales

X-35B short-takeoff and vertical-landing (STOVL) aircraft displayed at the National Air and Space Museum

The X-35 on Display

The fighter of the future comes to the Hazy Center.
November 2006 | By airspacemag.com

An early plastic mockup of the Nano Air Vehicle is about the size and shape of a maple seed.

Tomorrow's Spy Plane

A Nano Air Vehicle based on a maple seed.
November 2006 | By Tony Reichhardt

Feathers ruffled, a "Turkey" rests on the deck of the Harry S. Truman while a Sikorsky MH-60S Knighthawk hoists in supplies for the carrier population.

Tomcat Tribute

The Navy's fearsome fighter retires.
September 2006 | By The Editors

Swing Wings

It's all done with computers (and good old-fashioned hydraulics).
September 2006 | By Joe Pappalardo


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