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This A-List Actor Used His Celebrity to Promote Aviation

by Dennis K. Johnson4/26/20234/26/2023

B-17s To Get Their Wings Clipped

by Tom Huntington4/19/20235/19/2023

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This P-47 Will Once Again Take to the Skies

by Stephan Wilkinson4/19/20234/18/2023

Mystery Ship: Can you identify this eccentric-looking civil airplane?

by Jon Guttman4/17/20234/17/2023

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Was the Spitfire the Best-Looking Airplane of World War II?

by Paraag Shukla4/3/20234/3/2023

Photo of U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Samuel Galan, a UH-1Y Venom crew chief assigned to Marine Light Helicopter Attack Squadron (HMLA) 169, opens fire while conducting an interdiction mission over Helmand province, Afghanistan, Feb. 3, 2013. Galan, from Houston, Texas, is deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Marine Corps

These Aircraft Have Saved Men on the Ground

by Jon Guttman3/24/20232/1/2023

This Coast-to-Coast Aviation Race Had Crash After Crash

by Tom Huntington3/22/20233/22/2023

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What Does a Two-Headed, Venom-Spitting Snake Have to Do With WWII?

by World War II3/15/20233/15/2023

Photo of Operation Linebacker was the title of a U. S. Seventh Air Force and U. S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial interdiction campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 9 May to 23 October 1972, during the Vietnam War. Its purpose was to halt or slow the transportation of supplies and materials for the Nguyen Hue Offensive (known in the West as the Easter Offensive), an invasion of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), by forces of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), that had been launched on 30 March. Linebacker was the first continuous bombing effort conducted against North Vietnam since the bombing halt instituted by President Lyndon B. Johnson in November 1968.

Army and Navy Pilots Joined Together in a Day of Duels Over Vietnam

by Jon Guttman3/15/20234/14/2023

Leon Delagrange in Bleriot XI 16 at the Reims Meeting

This French Aviation Pioneer Pushed the Boundaries of Flight… Before it Killed Him

by W. M. Tarrant3/15/20233/14/2023