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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...
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Aviation History Magazine
The never-built Horten Ho-229 has been the subject of more speculation and myths than any other World War II airplane...
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Aviation History Magazine
Founded in response to air combat shortcomings during the Vietnam War, the U.S. Navy’s fighter training program continues to turn out elite airmen...
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Aviation History Magazine
Yakovlev’s simple approach to developing the Soviet Union’s first jet fighter worked remarkably well. As World War II drew to a close, all the major combatants except the Soviet Union were readying new turbojet-powered fighters for...
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Aviation History Magazine
The project achieved an important milestone when Ragozzino completed a successful taxi test last October...
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Aviation History Magazine, HistoryNet, Mag: Aviation History Aircraft
India’s HAL HF-24 Marut confounded detractors with its respectable combat record. The 1971 air war between India and Pakistan was of interest to foreign observers as a testing ground for such diverse Eastern and Western aircraft as the...
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Aviation History Magazine
How the shootdown of a U-2 spyplane over Cuba by a Soviet surface-to-air missile nearly led to nuclear war...
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Vietnam Magazine
Like Rolling Thunder: The Air War in Vietnam, 1964-1975 by Ronald B. Frankum Jr. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md., 2005, hardcover $24.95. For those unfamiliar with the major air campaigns conducted by the U.S. Air Force, Navy...
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Vietnam Magazine
In January 1967 a World War II ace taught the U.S. Air Force how to dogfight—and the North Vietnamese learned a lesson too...
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Aviation History Magazine
Ron Williams remembers his temporary duty assignment flying douglas A-3B “Whales” from a carrier as the most challenging two years
of his career
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