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Pioneers of Aeronautical Engineering: Erich Bachem – Developer of the World’s First Manned Vertical-Takeoff Interceptor
Erich Bachem developed the Bachem Ba 349 Natter, the world's first manned vertical-takeoff interceptor, pioneering…
Aces: Gerald Gordon Bell – The Sixteen Victory Canadian Fighter Ace Of WWI
Gerald Gordon Bell was a Canadian WWI flying ace who claimed 16 aerial victories after…
Warbird Profile: KELLY’S SHINING STAR
Text by Stephen Chapis Photo Luigino Caliaro Though the Lockheed T-33 is viewed as a…
Freshwater Mallard
Advertorial* By Stephen Chapis In 1944, having built more than 30,000 military aircraft and the…
X-Plane Files: THE LIFE OF X-1 ZERO SIX THREE
A little while back, we began a series of articles looking at the air-test work…
Frecce Tricolori Celebrate 60th Anniversary With Special Markings
While we don't often cover modern military aviation, we thought that the 60th anniversary of…
Getting Into Warbirds
by Sam Worthington-Leese Getting into warbirds might seem like an impossible dream, akin to being…
Gary Velasco’s Wingnut & Rockhead Show
The artwork of famed aviation artist Gary Velasco currently graces the noses of some of…
Tomcat Tales – Dave “Bio” Baranek on Tomcats and TOPGUN
It's been a decade and a half since the mighty Grumman F-14 Tomcat retired from…
Freedom 7 – 60th Anniversary of Alan Shepard’s Historic First Spaceflight
Sixty years ago, at precisely 9:34am EST, Alan B. Shepard Jr. became the first American,…
F-51s vs UFOs
by Stephen Chapis In the early months of modern Ufology, a pair of Air National…
Masters Of The Air Has Finally Started Production
“Masters of the Air,” the third installment of the Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks-led trilogy…
National Air and Space Museum, Remembering Michael Collins
While we don't normally mark the passing of aviation luminaries... it's hard not to pay…
INTO THE THIN AIR: F-104 Starfighter World Altitude Records
By Stephen Chapis When Lockheed Skunk Works unveiled the XF-104 in 1954, it possessed out…
Remembering Operation El Dorado Canyon: 35th Anniversary
Capt Gregory Ball, USAFR, Ph.D. Since the 1960s, the relationship between the United States and…
Vostok 1: 60th Anniversary of Historic First Human Spaceflight
Sixty years ago Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space – and…
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