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MHQ Magazine
Although a number of American citizens flew for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, the United States learned little from their experience. The heavens were threatening rain, but the mission was deemed sufficiently critical to...
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Aviation History
Sixty years after its introduction, Lockheed’s U-2 spyplane continues to serve as America’s eyes in the sky over distant battlefields. Behold the Lockheed U-2, as imperfect an airplane as has ever flown. A hastily designed stopgap...
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Aviation History
When the French Resistance needed help, a squadron of ex–sub hunters became the air arm of the OSS. In May 1944, not long after their arrival in England, B-24 Liberator pilot Captain George Johnson and crews of the 788th Bombardment...
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Aviation History, Aviation History Magazine, HistoryNet
In the spring of 1919, three Navy-Curtiss flying boats set out to beat the competition and be the first to fly across the Atlantic Ocean....
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Aviation History Magazine, HistoryNet
Still going strong after 60 years of service, the rock-solid MiG-21 supersonic fighter gained a fearsome reputation despite its lackluster combat record. While the United States was cranking out Century Series fighters, all spectacular but...
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Military History, MH Interviews
Cole was co-pilot to famed USAAF Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle in the lead plane of 16 B-25B bombers that boldly raided targets in Japan on April 18, 1942...
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Aviation History Magazine
The Curtiss C-46 filled a niche during World War II for a high-altitude heavy hauler capable of operating from rough airstrips in far-flung locales They called it the Curtiss Calamity, Ol’ Dumbo, the Flying Whale and, more recently, Miss...
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Aviation History Magazine
The interesting question today is not whether the Mustang was fast, but why...
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Aviation History Magazine
Bleecker beat Igor Sikorsky to the punch by developing a fully controllable helicopter in 1930, only to see his invention abandoned for want of a $90 part. “Sikorsky was the first to make helicopters practical,” wrote aviation expert...
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Aviation History Magazine
Expectations were high when Burt Rutan teamed up with Beech to produce the Starship business aircraft, but the result was a rare failure for the innovative designer. In 1955 the Beech Aircraft Company considered marketing the French...
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American History Magazine
Amelia Earhart, Ruth Nichols, Louise Thaden, Ruth Elder, and Florence Klingensmith made aviation history a decade after the 19th Amendment lifted American women from second-class citizenship....
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Aviation History Magazine
How a rainstorm and a navigational error led to the murder of two U.S. Army aviators in Mexico. More than a month had passed since U.S. Army Air Service Lieutenants Cecil Connolly and Frederick Waterhouse took off from Calexico, Calif.,...
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Aviation History Magazine
A close examination of the historical record reveals that ground-attack aircraft in World War II were not as successful against armor as many believe. The effectiveness of anti-tank aircraft in World War II is taken for granted by...
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AViation History Magazine
The Howard 500 was the last production radial-engine passenger transport and the most advanced piston twin ever built
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Aviation History Magazine
A former Topgun instructor describes a typical combat training mission during his time at the Navy Fighter Weapons School. In September 1982 I was one of eight students being briefed in a classroom at the Navy Fighter Weapons School at...
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Aviation History Magazine
The son of a sharecropper, Mississippi-born Jesse Leeroy Brown would do whatever it took to become a pilot and break the navy's color barrier...
