Airborne Operations
Published: November 10, 2009 at 1:16 pm
In the January 2010 Aviation History readers discuss the B-17F Flying Fortress, the PV-1 Ventura, the Canadian Avrocar, the Lockheed Constellation and the Custer Channel Wing.
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.
Vietnam magazine |
Published: November 09, 2009 at 1:56 pm
During the Vietnam War, U.S. Air Force Pararescue Jumpers trained for and undertook daring missions to rescue downed airmen in enemy territory.
Brandon Darnell |
Published: October 06, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Intrepid Air Force Pararescue Jumpers, flying from a secret CIA landing strip in Laos, evade North Vietnamese MiG-17s 75 miles north of Hanoi during one of the Vietnam War's most harrowing helicopter missions to rescue a downed American F-105 pilot
Published: September 02, 2009 at 2:02 pm
In the September 2009 Aviation History Mailbag readers discuss the Merlin engine, the Wright 3350 engine, John Newton Williams' helicopter, the greatest emergency landings and Amelia Earhart.
Published: May 15, 2009 at 2:22 pm
The July 2009 Aviation History Reader's Poll asks if Royal Navy Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown was the best test pilot to ever live.
Published: April 29, 2009 at 11:01 am
In 1948 Gail Halvorsen flew to Germany to serve as a transport pilot during the Berlin Airlift. His decision to drop candy to Berlin's isolated children -- a mission dubbed Operation Little Vittles -- became the public relations coup of the Cold War.
Jay Wertz |
Published: March 12, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Aerial refueling techniques have evolved in the past 85 years from dangling a simple hose connected to a 75 gallon-tank to positioning telescoping booms that transfer thousands of gallons of fuel.
C.V. Glines |
Published: January 09, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Gabby Gabreski nearly failed out of his Army Air Corps flight training, but went on to become the top American fighter ace in Europe during World War II and a jet ace in Korea.
Brig. Gen. Stanley Cherrie, U.S. Army (Ret.) |
Published: November 25, 2008 at 5:08 pm
It seemed all South Vietnam was ablaze in the early hours of the 1968 Tet Offensive as a Huey helicopter gunship pilot performed a death-defying aerial maneuver to rescue an Australian unit ambushed and pinned down by a Viet Cong .50-caliber gunner.
Lloyd Clark |
Published: August 17, 2007 at 9:42 am
A look back at Operation Market Garden near the end of World War II. Was the plan doomed from the start, or could airborne and ground units have taken Arnhem, Nijmegen and Eindhoven from the Germans?
Bernd Horn |
Published: May 04, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Only those hardened to adversity, resilient to the stress of the unknown, and capable of adapting to ever-changing circumstances could survive in the devil’s cauldron that was the airborne soldier's battlefield of World War II.
Kelly Bell |
Published: March 05, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Polish airmen fought valiantly against marauding Messerschmitts during the Battle of Britain, only to see their contributions largely ignored at war's end as Poland was absorbed into the Communist bloc.
Otto Kreisher |
Published: January 16, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Used primarily for search and rescue in the Korean War's early days, choppers had become an essential battlefield tool by the conflict's end.
Published: January 16, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Colonel Harold Fischer survived two years in a Chinese prison camp after getting shot down over Manchuria.Interview by Bob Bergin
Published: January 16, 2007 at 12:10 pm
An elite group of Marine paratroopers joins French freedom fighters on a covert mission behind enemy lines. By Dick Camp
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