Enterprise Returns Home from Final Deployment
The USS Enterprise (CVN 65), the world’s first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, has come home for good after her 22nd …
Fighter Aircraft
P-51 Mustang’s Switch to Merlin Engine Made it the World-beater of World War II
Even experts on World War II don’t always remember hearing about an American fighter named the XP-78.
But almost every …
The Air-launched Munitions Market
From the first combat aircraft of World War I to the early days of the Korean War, the most-used and …
F-35C Integrated Direct Lift Control: How It Works
A few months ago NAVAIR issued a press release touting the F-35C’s new Integrated Direct Lift Control (IDLC), highlighting its …
‘Very Long Range’ P-51 Mustang Missions to Japan Taxed Pilots
To support the B-29 Superfortress armada gathered on Guam, Saipan and Tinian – and to make their own, unique contribution …
Interview With Maj. Gen. James W. “Bill” Hyatt
In the year prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Army Air Corps (AAC) began construction of an aerial …
The Air Force of 2030
In his speech to the graduating Air Force Academy class of 2012 in May, President Barack Obama told the men …
XP-59A Airacomet: The First American Jet Began As A Secret Program
When the Bell XP-59A Airacomet came on the scene during World War II it was shrouded in secrecy and surrounded …
Attack on Camp Bastion: VMA-211 Is Back in the Fight
After suffering the loss of its commanding officer and all but two of its aircraft in the attack on Camp …
Attack on Camp Bastion: The Destruction of VMA-211
Late on Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, a Taliban insurgent force of sappers carried out an attack on Camp Bastion, the …