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On October 23, 1962, U.S. Navy RF-8A Crusaders launched Operation Blue Moon, conducting low-level reconnaissance…
The Caproni Ca.90 was a massive six-engine Italian bomber that carried 8,000 kg of bombs…
A little while back, we began a series of articles looking at the air-test work…
While we don't often cover modern military aviation, we thought that the 60th anniversary of…
by Sam Worthington-Leese Getting into warbirds might seem like an impossible dream, akin to being…
The artwork of famed aviation artist Gary Velasco currently graces the noses of some of…
It's been a decade and a half since the mighty Grumman F-14 Tomcat retired from…
Sixty years ago, at precisely 9:34am EST, Alan B. Shepard Jr. became the first American,…
by Stephen Chapis In the early months of modern Ufology, a pair of Air National…
“Masters of the Air,” the third installment of the Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks-led trilogy…
While we don't normally mark the passing of aviation luminaries... it's hard not to pay…
By Stephen Chapis When Lockheed Skunk Works unveiled the XF-104 in 1954, it possessed out…
Capt Gregory Ball, USAFR, Ph.D. Since the 1960s, the relationship between the United States and…
Sixty years ago Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space – and…
The Right Stuff television series, based on the 1979 book of the same name by…
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