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By Randy Malmstrom Bell P-39Q-15-BE Airacobra, s/n 44-2485. As far as I have determined, this…
By Randy Malmstrom WACO Model UBF-2/U.S. Navy XJW-1, s/n 3692. This particular aircraft was built…
From the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution's newsletter One hundred years…
Advertorial In 2020 the United States Air Force awarded LIFT Airborne Technologies an OTA Agreement…
By Stephen Chapis At first glance one might mistake it for an F-16A of the…
by Richard Mallory Allnutt (Editor) As we reported recently, the aviation-themed TV miniseries, Masters of the…
Text by Stephen Chapis Photo Luigino Caliaro Though the Lockheed T-33 is viewed as a…
Advertorial* By Stephen Chapis In 1944, having built more than 30,000 military aircraft and the…
A little while back, we began a series of articles looking at the air-test work…
While we don't often cover modern military aviation, we thought that the 60th anniversary of…
by Sam Worthington-Leese Getting into warbirds might seem like an impossible dream, akin to being…
The artwork of famed aviation artist Gary Velasco currently graces the noses of some of…
It's been a decade and a half since the mighty Grumman F-14 Tomcat retired from…
Sixty years ago, at precisely 9:34am EST, Alan B. Shepard Jr. became the first American,…
by Stephen Chapis In the early months of modern Ufology, a pair of Air National…
“Masters of the Air,” the third installment of the Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks-led trilogy…
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