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
The Navy Gets a Panther
It wasn’t the flashiest jet fighter, but the Grumman F9F was a rugged little aircraft that did everything asked of it.
May 20, 2013 |
By Diane Tedeschi
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
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.)
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
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
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
In the Museum: My Vostok Is Bigger Than Your Mercury
Launching two very different capsules—and a space race.
August 2011 |
By Rebecca Maksel
Above and Beyond: Warner and the Whale
How we turned the A3D into a tanker.
July 2011 |
By Hadley Dixon
Oldies and Oddities: When Civvies Scrambled Fighters
Neighbors, families, and friends watched the skies for enemy bombers.
July 2011 |
By Mark Wolverton
