
When Lindbergh Tested His Spirit of St. Louis
Recently discovered photos of the Spirit of St. Louis test flights shed light on the “Lone Eagle’s” preparations for his celebrated transatlantic flight.
Recently discovered photos of the Spirit of St. Louis test flights shed light on the “Lone Eagle’s” preparations for his celebrated transatlantic flight.
Colonel Neel Kearby was among the top scorers in the Pacific when he pushed his luck too far while chasing Eddie Rickenbacker’s record.
On a flight fraught with peril, two pilots circumnavigated the globe in a spindly twin-boom airplane with only the fuel they carried on takeoff.
Hank Buttelmann was the U.S. Air Force’s youngest and last ace of the Korean War.
Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Germany’s most highly decorated combat pilot, only shot down nine enemy aircraft, but he destroyed the equivalent of more than three Soviet tank corps
Ron Williams remembers his temporary duty assignment flying douglas A-3B “Whales” from a carrier as the most challenging two years of his career
More than 100 years ago, Samuel Langley's team of specialists from the Smithsonian Institution proved to a small group of astonished observers that powered flight was possible. But they still had to prove that their Aerodrome could safely carry a man into the sky.