U.S. Navy Missile Defense: Building and Deploying the U.S. Navy’s Missile Fleet – With Urgency
For anyone younger than those of the baby boomer generation, it is impossible to fully understand the urgency the Cold …
Aerospace
Flying and Fighting in the B-26 Marauder
“It was not the airplane I wanted to fly. I was horrified because of all the bad stories I had …
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 …
U.S. Navy Missile Defense: The Transition From Guns to Missiles
The U.S. Navy has been in the missile defense business for over six decades. Given such a long history, and …
Book Review – Mission to Tokyo: The American Airmen Who Took the War to the Heart of Japan
With Mission to Tokyo, Robert F. Dorr once again has created a multi-dimensional, multi-layered approach to telling a story of …
The P-3 Orion In Service
At the height of Cold War tensions, the chief of the Soviet general staff, Marshal Sergey Akhromeyev said, “I always …
Flying the P-47N Thunderbolt
“It was a beautiful specimen of the great Thunderbolt fighter, almost factory-fresh in the Pacific sunshine, resplendent with an all-yellow …
Credible Sport: The Super-STOL Hercules
Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution should never have caught the U.S. by surprise. But because Iran had been a key client …
Flying the P-39 Airacobra in the Pacific Posed Challenges
The Bell P-39 Airacobra may have been the least-loved American fighter of World War II. Most Americans piloted the P-39 …
Neil Armstrong, Ejecting, and the Aviation Midshipmen
“It’s nice to be in a place like this where I’m not the oldest man in the room,” said Neil …