Aviation History
Published: November 06, 2006 at 1:14 pm
Graf Zeppelin's epic around-the-world flight was a mixed experience for passengers and crew alike -- but the airship would go on to log more than 1 million miles.By Eric Niderost
Published: October 25, 2006 at 11:16 am
Captain and crew struggled valiantly to keep the giant dirigible on course and airborne in a violent Midwestern storm.By Wilbur Cross
Published: September 05, 2006 at 9:41 am
Keeping the famed Afrika Korps supplied during its desert blitzkrieg was a logistical nightmare for the German high command. Allied forces were determined to deny Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's fleet of huge transport planes access to North Africa.By Vincent Cortright
Published: September 01, 2006 at 2:14 pm
The 40th Bomb Group tamed America's biggest and deadliest bombers of World War II -- the Boeing B-29 Superfortresses -- to help subdue the Japanese.By Daniel Wyatt
Published: July 28, 2006 at 11:10 am
World War II in the Pacific was a fight to seize and defend airfields. The Japanese made gaining and maintaining control of the air as much a requirement in their basic war strategy as they did the destruction of the …
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:18 pm
Under General Henry H. 'Hap' Arnold, America's air arm became the largest and most potent air force in history. By C.V. Glines
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:18 pm
Groundbreaking pilot Hanna Reitsch was determined to fly from early childhood, and she would set more than 40 records in her lifetime. But she was tragically slow to recognize the ruin into which the Nazis were leading her homeland.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Hermann Graf was one of the Luftwaffe's most decorated -- and forgotten -- aces.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:16 pm
B.F. Mahoney was the 'mystery man' behind the Ryan company that built Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis.
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Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:16 pm
An obscure U.S. Navy fighter did yeoman duty when times were toughest early in World War II.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Its development was kept under wraps for 14 years, but by 1991, the F-117 Nighthawk had become a household word.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Air Marshal Ivan Kozhedub was the highest-scoring fighter pilot flying against the Germans during the early 1940s. He tells what it was like to succeed in a learn-as-you-fight conflict.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:16 pm
During the Eighth Air Force's last mission over Europe, members of the 324th Bomb Squadron became embroiled in a dispute with their commanding officer.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:16 pm
A British crew set out to make aviation history by overflying the Atlantic in the giant rigid airship R.34 in the summer of 1919.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:16 pm
A doer and a problem-solver who got results without fanfare, `Tooey' Spaatz was dedicated to creating the Air Force as a separate military service.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:16 pm
The MacMillan Arctic Expedition marked the first productive use of aircraft in Arctic exploration by Americans and brought Richard Byrd into the national limelight.
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