Decades before the space shuttle, U. S. Air Force officers and scientists were working on the Dyna-Soar, a single-pilot, reusable …

When Ruth Law Oliver embarked on a campaign to allow women to fly military aircraft in 1917, she could …

It was going to be the biggest, fastest and most heavily armed fighter in the air. The North American F-108 …

The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) was the U.S. Air Force’s most ambitious spaceflight program in the mid- to late- 1960s. …

One of the great and tragic ironies of World War II was that while America claimed to be a champion …

Scooter, Spad, Ford, FiFi, and Willy Fudd are among the many naval aviation nicknames given to U.S. Navy aircraft over …

By the summer of 1969, almost every element of the Apollo program had been tested and proven. The massive …

On April 9, 1942, the American and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula surrendered. Japanese conquest of the Philippines was …

The French phrase coup de main literally means “a strike of the hand.” In military jargon, it means “an offensive …

In a long career testing everything from the P-47 Thunderbolt to the F-105 Thunderchief, celebrated test pilot Lin Hendrix …