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Cold War Era

A period of time from 1947 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 that includes the space race and Korean and Vietnam Wars
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The Titanium Gambit

During the Cold War, Boeing execs got a strange call from the State Department: Would you guys mind trading secrets with the Russians?
April 01, 2013 | By Joe Sutter

Area 51: Origins

America’s once-secret air base had humble beginnings.
March 26, 2013 | By Peter Merlin

Rotary Rescue

The Sikorsky HO5S-1 made its name flying medevac missions in Korea.
January 2013 | By Rebecca Maksel

The Ordeal of VF-653

From a Navy Reserve pilot’s letters home, a picture of the darkest days of the Korean War
January 2013 | By David Sears

Kennedy’s Evidence

Low-level aerial photos confirmed that Soviet nuclear missiles were in Cuba in 1962.
September 18, 2012 | By Roger Mola

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Due South of Key West

Flying fast and low over Castro’s Cuba.
September 18, 2012 | By Paul Hoversten

Neil Armstrong, In His Own Words

The first moonwalker's storied aviation career
August 27, 2012 | By Tony Reichhardt

Bait and Switch in Libya

Naval aviators push Qaddafi's buttons in a 1981 exercise.
July 2012 | By Commander Thompson E. Sanders U.S. Navy (Ret.)

A pilot takes a self-portrait aboard the U-2.

Killer at 70,000 Feet

The occupational hazards of flying the U-2.
May 2012 | By Mark Betancourt

I Flew the U-2

One of Lockheed’s former chief test pilots for high altitude reconnaissance describes the joys and terrors of the U-2.
March 2012 | By Linda Shiner

Dragon Lady: A Portrait Gallery

Once a top secret, the U-2 is one photogenic spyplane.
March 20, 2012 | By Paul Hoversten

Gallery Inventory Project, Jet Aviation

Ask a Veteran

These Museum staffers and volunteers once served their country in the armed forces. Now they serve in a different way.
November 10, 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

A Northrop YB-49 in flight over desert, probably in the vicinity of Muroc, California.

Are any of Northrop's "flying wings" from the 1940s still around?

What ever happened to the YB-49 and the XB-35?
August 16, 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

Visitors assemble space station elements in the Moving Beyond Earth gallery.

In the Museum: My Vostok Is Bigger Than Your Mercury

Launching two very different capsules—and a space race.
August 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

Before hose and reel refueling took hold the Navy tried a system of rigid tubing

Above and Beyond: Warner and the Whale

How we turned the A3D into a tanker.
July 2011 | By Hadley Dixon

Kernersville North Carolina observers and Air Force reps inspect a post in 1958

Oldies and Oddities: When Civvies Scrambled Fighters

Neighbors, families, and friends watched the skies for enemy bombers.
July 2011 | By Mark Wolverton

The Lockheed U-2 ushered in a new age of spying and new requirements for photo interpretation.

Project Equine

...And the high-tech horse it rode in on.
May 2011 | By Dino Brugioni

<i>Ciao!</i> Italy’s military precision jet team, Frecce Tricolori (“Tricolor Arrows”), makes its first visit to North America with performances on August 2 and 3 at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s 34th Fly-in Convention in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The

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The year we were born.
May 2011 | By Paul Hoversten

Media coverage of the Bay of Pigs fiasco was unbridled. Far right: the narrator, as a staff sergeant in the Alabama Air National Guard in the 1950s.

Above and Beyond

Mission: Cuba. Status: Top secret.
May 2011 | By James Storie

Purists point out that the present incarnation of B-36J no. 52-2827 isn’t 100 percent accurate.

Monster Bomber

At the Pima Air and Space Museum, the B-36 is the largest U.S. warplane ever rebuilt.
August 2010 | By The Editors


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