C-130 Carrier Landing
Ask any student of military history about the effects of the April 1942 Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, and the answer …
Aerospace
Skyraiders Torpedo the Hwachon Dam
A noisy, leaky propeller plane and an old but reliable weapon joined forces in 1951 to carry out an attack …
Mission to Hiroshima
A new and different band of brothers began arriving at North Field, Tinian, in that summer of 1945, hauling duffel …
F-15 Eagle Marks 40th Anniversary
As the United States marks the 40th anniversary of the first flight of the F-15 Eagle on July 27, the …
Sally Ride, NASA’s First Female in Space, Dies
Astronaut Sally K. Ride, Ph.D., the first American woman to fly into space, died on July 23, 2012, at her …
B-26 Marauder Pilot Fought the German Jets
Long after World War II, former B-26 Marauder medium bomber pilot Jim Vining was in a room with Adolf Galland, …
The Messerschmitt Me 262 Jet Fighter
The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe (“Swallow”), also called the Sturmvogel (“Stormbird”) in its fighter-bomber version, was the world’s first operational …
Book Review – Thunderbolts of the Hell Hawks, by Don Barnes, John Crump, and Roy Sutherland
Once in a while, a book will capture your attention not because it’s educational, not because it’s entertaining, but because …
Messerschmitt’s P.1101 Never Flew, but Influenced Aviation for Decades
When American tanks rolled into Oberammergau in Bavaria on April 29, 1945, the war had not yet ended and the …
Capt. F. Gary Powers, CIA U-2 Pilot, Awarded the Silver Star
Capt. Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of the Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane that was shot down over the …