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Fishing for Saint-Ex
There's something down there. And it may be Antoine De Saint-Exupéry's P-38.
May 2001 |
By Joseph Harriss
One Balloon Bomber (Slightly Used)
First it carried a Japanese bomb 5,000 miles across the Pacific. Then it carried Don Piccard across Minneapolis.
May 2001 |
By Don Piccard
Don't Mess With Switzerland
To the world's most formidable natural defenses, the Swiss have added F/A-18 Hornets and a new slant on neutrality.
March 2001 |
By Carl Posey
Restoration: Desperate Journey
A Junkers Ju 88 is pulled from a Norwegian lake.
March 2001 |
By Douglas Hinton
Made in the U.S.S.R.
Of course they copied it. The two airplanes could have been twins. But was the Soviets' Tu-4 truly an exact duplicate of the Boeing B-29?
March 2001 |
By Von Hardesty
The Christmas Bombing
In December 1972, the B-52 bombers that North Vietnamese missile crews had been waiting for came to Hanoi. Night after night. Over virtually the same track.
January 2001 |
By Marshall Michel
Nguyen Van Bay and the Aces From the North
As an F-4 Phantom pilot, I had tried to kill these men. And they had tried to kill me. I thought it was time we had a talk.
November 2000 |
By Ralph Wetterhahn
