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John Magda (mounting his Blue Angel Panther in 1950)

Restoration: Kentucky Panther

Grumman's first jet honors a son of the Bluegrass State.
January 2010 | By Barrett Tillman

The authors daughter, spellbound by a Hercules C-130

Flights and Fancy: Like Father, Like Daughter

January 2010 | By David Unekis

A segmented 76-foot airship during flight testing over Stuttgart, Germany.

Sky Snake

Flexible blimps are bending the rules on UAV design.
December 18, 2009 | By Michael Klesius

An Air Force T-38A trainer over Texas.

Batstrike!

A loud thud. A shower of purple-white sparks. This can't be good.
December 14, 2009 | By Randy Gordon

Various Stages of painting the Aviation Heritage Park Panther F9F-2 as it starts to receive official Blue Angels paint. All work was done at the hanger and paint was donated by PPG Aerospace.

Panther Paint Job

Watch a 57-year-old warbird go from Winona rags to Blue Angel royalty.
November 17, 2009 | By Michael Klesius

Hawker Hurricane at the NASM Udvar-Hazy Center. Smithsonian NASM Udvar-Hazy Center Photo By Dane A. Penland

Sightings: Hazy's Hits

A photo gallery of airplanes at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center.
November 17, 2009 | By Michael Klesius

A cloaking device is made of copper rings, each surrounded by 10 layers of meta-material.

Now You See It, Now You Don’t

Blinding us with science: the next generation of stealth.
November 2009 | By Damond Benningfield

A P-38J-5-LO (foreground), a late Lightning variant, flies with an F-5, a later photo-recon version of the P-38. Only a handful of P-38s are flying today. Duckypoo may one day join them, if not in the air, then perhaps on the ground.

Can This P-38 Be Saved?

Lockheed P-38 Lightnings brought many a pilot home. This pilot would like to return the favor.
November 2009 | By David F. Toomey

F-16s from the Ohio Air National Guard patrol over Iraq during Operation Northern Watch in 2002.

Over the No-Fly Zone

Patrolling over northern Iraq in 2001 felt like driving through a small town with Hell's Angels.
September 22, 2009 | By Randy Gordon

At Northrop Grumman’s model shop in El Segundo, California, Gary Miley applies gel to form a mold he will use to create a model blank.

Martial Arts

Memo to bad guys: Wanna know what U.S. warplanes you’ll tangle with in the future? Visit an aerospace model shop.
September 2009 | By Chad Slattery

The BA609.

Tiltrotors for the Rest of Us

An Osprey for commuters? Bring it on. Can we get a quiet car too?
September 2009 | By Mark Wolverton

A technician employs the proverbial 10-foot pole to extract a contaminated filter from a Republic F-84. With samplers mounted, there was no room for wingtip fuel tanks.

Into the Mushroom Cloud

Most pilots would head away from a thermonuclear explosion.
August 2009 | By Mark Wolverton

A deformed machine gun from the Nakajima Ki-27 spoke volumes to the author (center).

Above and Beyond: Recovery: Bataan

August 2009 | By Ralph Wetterhahn

Then-Colonel Spector beside an F-16 during transition flight training at Hill Air Force Base in Utah in 1980.

A&S Interview: Brig. Gen. Iftach Spector

Israeli Air Force Ace, teacher, author
August 2009 | By Peter Mersky

UAV

Unmanned Traffic Jam

To the Federal Aviation Administration, civilian UAVs are the new barbarians at the gate.
July 2009 | By Douglas Gantenbein

Boeing B-47

The Dawn of Discipline

A B-47 pilot remembers when an airplane—and Curtis LeMay—stiffened the spine of the Strategic Air Command
July 2009 | By Walter J. Boyne

The YB-49 demonstrated that putting jet engines on an airframe designed for piston engines made the aircraft faster but not better.

Too Much, Too Soon

July 2009 | By General Robert L. Cardenas, U.S. Air Force (Ret.) As told to James P. Busha

John Glenn’s transcontinental F8U flight led to his selection as an astronaut.

John Glenn's Project Bullet

July 2009 | By George C. Larson, member, NAA

A spacious canopy provided excellent visibility.

Legends of Vietnam: Shoulder to Shoulder

The Grumman A-6 was ugly, but it sure could cook.
May 2009 | By Rafael Lima

Operation Vittles was a military miracle: The Allies delivered 2.3 million tons of supplies to Berlin.

Moments & Milestones: The Hungry City

May 2009 | By George C. Larson, member, NAA


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