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“This Is Only a Test”
Fifty years ago, cold-war games halted all civilian air traffic—long before September 11 did the same.
March 2002 |
By Roger A. Mola
The Plane With No Name
The F-111: In Australia, an airplane for all seasons.
March 2002 |
By William Triplett
Young Turks
The Turkish Air Demo team is winning friends at home with its seven Northrop F-5s.
January 2002 |
By Roger A. Mola
Air Combat U
At the USAF Fighter Weapons School in 1957, the instructors were mean, but the aircraft were meaner.
January 2002 |
By Robert A. Hanson
All and Nothing
After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese planned to strike the United States with aircraft borne by giant submarines. If it worked, the Atlantic fleet would be trapped.
November 2001 |
By Thomas S. Momiyama
The Avengers
They torpedoed enemy ships during World War II. Now they fight fire.
November 2001 |
By Marshall Lumsden
Unbreakable
World War II aircraft that were shot to hell—and came back.
November 2001 |
By Cory Graff
The Reunion
A fighter pilot, his escort, and one hell of a coincidence.
September 2001 |
By John Fleischman
Restoration: Homecoming
Handley Page Halifax under restoration in Canada.
July 2001 |
By J. Douglas Hinton
Dog of War
Think of Yankee Lima Four Two as a time machine: Jump in and you're back in Vietnam.
July 2001 |
By Stephan Wilkinson
The Fastest Show on Earth
How two Lockheed F-104 Starfighters became airshow stars.
May 2001 |
By Carl Hoffman
Predator: First Watch
Lesson learned: never send a man to do a machine's job.
May 2001 |
By Linda Shiner
