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I Got Shot Down
Seven airmen talk about the event none wants to experience.
May 2004 |
By Phil Scott
Alpine Air
The only thing more durable than these Junkers Ju 52s are the mountains over which they now fly sightseers.
May 2004 |
By Linda Shiner
Night Stalkers
U.S. soldiers in Vietnam heard rumors of ghosts; the Viet Cong chalked it up to bad luck.
May 2004 |
By Roger Warner
Glacier Girl
The Lockheed P-38 saved from an icy tomb is now the star attraction in a previously quiet Kentucky town.
March 2004 |
By Carl Hoffman
French Lessons
With their own country occupied by Germany, French air cadets came to Alabama to learn to fly. Vive la Dixie!
March 2004 |
By Janelle Dupont
Australian Racing Moths
In the Great Australian Tiger Moth Race, it's not whether you win or lose, but whether you can stand that damned uncomfortable cockpit long enough to even finish.
March 2004 |
By Derek Grzelewski
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
Through Darkest Iraq with Gun and Cobra
A month of war through the night-vision goggles of a Marine AH-1W SuperCobra pilot.
January 2004 |
By Story and photographs by James Cox
Air(show) Assault
With a Caribou, Mohawk, Bird Dog, Hueys, and Cobras, Army aviators are teaching the loudest history lesson you ever heard.
November 2003 |
By Shelby G. Spires
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
Vang's War
How the fighting in Southeast Asia transformed a curious young man into a fiercely dedicated pilot.
September 2003 |
By Roger Warner
Yellow 10
Something about the Champlin Fighter Museum's Focke-Wulf 190D never seemed quite right.
September 2003 |
By Howard Stansfield
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
The Champ
From the decks of World War II aircraft carriers to today's airshow circuit-the journey of a Royal Australian Navy Fairey Firefly.
July 2003 |
By John Sotham
ZWRRWWWBRZR
That's the sound of the prop-driven XF-84H, and it brought grown men to their knees. It didn't fly all that great either.
July 2003 |
By Stephan Wilkinson
Exit Strategy
Target: Soviet weapons plant. Mission: Low-altitude bombing. Payload: Nuclear. Problem: Getting back.
May 2003 |
By Marshall Michel
How the 747 Got Its Hump
In the evolution of the airplane, Darwinian principles have applied unevenly.
May 2003 |
By Bill Sweetman
The Pentagon's Flying Saucer Problem
The weapon system that could have made the enemy die laughing
May 2003 |
By Graham Chandler
