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
Swing Wings
It's all done with computers (and good old-fashioned hydraulics).
September 2006 |
By Joe Pappalardo
Star Quality
How did we love the Tomcat? On the 20th anniversary of Top Gun, we count the ways.
September 2006 |
By The Editors
Home on the Plains
Gus Grissom's Mercury capsule settles down in Kansas.
September 2006 |
By Paul Hoversten
A Hard Day's Night
Cold war B-52s flew an icy northern route on alert for a Soviet missile strike.
September 2006 |
By Bill Robinson
Beautiful Climber
In the summer of '58, nothing was faster to 50,000 feet.
July 2006 |
By Carl Posey
The Century Series: F-100
A portrait of the F-100 Super Sabre in action during the Vietnam War.
January 2006 |
By John Kocon
Speed Freak
In the 1950s, the Mach 2+ B-58 Hustler seemed a safe bet to win the arms race.
January 2006 |
By Dale Smith
A Full Retaliatory Response
When President John Kennedy contemplated nuclear war, what went through the minds of the U.S. bomber crews?
November 2005 |
By Thomas Jones
Spaceman
Sometimes an entire era is represented by a single career.
September 2005 |
By Geoffrey Little
Planes, Trains, and Waterfalls
A South African company revives a 1950s airliner and the lost art of elegant travel.
September 2005 |
By Sam Goldberg
White Rocket
How all U.S. Air Force pilots since 1968 have met their Mach.
September 2005 |
By Peter Garrison
The U-Deuce
The secret to a spyplane's eternal youth is a new suite of gadgets installed on a classic chassis.
March 2005 |
By William E. Burrows
Pony Power
What do you call a Temco TT-1 Pinto trainer with a new engine? A rare breed with a lot of giddyup-and-go.
March 2005 |
By Jay Miller
Vintage Charmers
Visit Mountain Valley Airport and soar with the wood-and-fabric fans of the Vintage Sailplane Association.
March 2005 |
By Chad Slattery
The Nightmare of Voskhod 2
A cosmonaut remembers the exhilaration-and terror-of his first space mission.
January 2005 |
By Alexei Leonov
The Mystery of the Lost Clipper
The Civil Aeronautics Board and the FBI abandoned the case 47 years ago, but two amateur detectives are still searching for the cause of the crash of Pan Am 944.
September 2004 |
By Gregg Herken with Ken Fortenberry
50 Years of Hercules
As utilitarian as a bucket and just as plain, Lockheed's C-130 has flown almost everything to almost everywhere.
September 2004 |
By Carl Posey
