Aviation History
Stephan Wilkinson |
Published: March 16, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Royal Australian Air Force Flight Lieutenant Henry Lacy Smith's Spitfire MkIXb has been recovered from a tidal flat off the Orne River near Caen, having been shot down during a mission over Normandy in 1944.
Stephan Wilkinson |
Published: March 09, 2011 at 12:20 pm
The May 2011 Aviation History nominates the 13 ugliest airplanes ever to fly.
Stephan Wilkinson |
Published: January 24, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Ex-Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen has restored a Focke-Wulf Fw-190A complete with an original, extremely rare BMW 801 radial engine.
Stephan Wilkinson |
Published: January 24, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Second Lieutenant Kenneth Hindersinn's P-57D Thunderbolt has been recovered by a farmer near St. Mère-Eglise in Normandy.
Stephen Mauro |
Published: January 24, 2011 at 12:23 pm
A P-39 Lend-Lease fighter discovered in a Russian lake is being restored at its birthplace—the former Bell Aircraft plant, now part of Niagara Falls International Airport in New York.
Nicholas A. Veronico |
Published: January 18, 2011 at 12:28 pm
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), the world's largest airborne observatory, has begun operations, imaging the planet Jupiter and the M82 galaxy.
Richard L. Hayes |
Published: January 14, 2011 at 10:39 am
In the March 2011 issue Jimmy Stewart takes center stage aboard B-24 Liberators in the European Theater.
Lawrence Spinetta |
Published: November 10, 2010 at 11:33 am
From inauspicious biplane beginnings to near mastery of the skies above combat zones, UAVs have a rich history.
Stephan Wilkinson |
Published: September 22, 2010 at 10:50 am
The November 2010 Aviation History features 10 aircraft that took incredible skill and fortitude to fly.
Warren E. Thompson |
Published: July 26, 2010 at 11:28 am
On September 13, 1974, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird set a world speed record that remains standing today.
Published: July 07, 2010 at 5:42 pm
The world's fastest, highest-flying jet aircraft leaps from the pages of the November 2010 Aviation History.
Phil Scott |
Published: May 21, 2010 at 9:38 am
After WWII, "Watson's Whizzers" returned a handful of German Me-262s to the air, ushering in the U.S. jet age.
Derek O'Connor |
Published: March 16, 2010 at 3:40 pm
The Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden in England preserves an invaluable array of vintage RAF airplanes.
Walter J. Boyne |
Published: January 08, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Aviation History's Top 10 Best Aviation Movies include Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines, Hell's Angels, The Dam Busters, and The Bridges at Toko-Ri; the Top 10 Worst include Top Gun, Snakes on a Plane, and Pearl Harbor.
Walter J. Boyne |
Published: November 10, 2009 at 1:14 pm
The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was a long-range bomber that could reach deep into Soviet airspace, but it was compromised by a declining defense budget and improved surface-to-air missiles.
Peter Garrison |
Published: September 20, 2009 at 12:30 pm
In a career that has flouted convention, Burt Rutan made advances to the stall-resistant canard wing and designed SpaceShipOne, the first privately funded aircraft to achieve suborbital flight.
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