Book Review – X-15: The World’s Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age
In the annals of experimental aircraft, the X-15 is not as revered or as remembered as the Bell X-1, which …
Aircraft
The Evolution of the U-2 Dragon Lady
With the Lockheed Martin U-2 Dragon Lady set to give way to the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk, President Barack …
Boeing Maritime Surveillance Aircraft Demonstrator Makes First Flight
The Bombardier Challenger 604 business jet was built to ensure that high-powered executives travel in style. However, the one that …
U.S. Navy Joins Search for Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
As the efforts intensified this weekend to find Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 and the 227 passengers and 12 crew onboard, …
Distributed Battle Management: DARPA Seeks to Manage Increasingly Complex Contested Airspace
Anyone who has seen the 2005 movie Stealth has seen a vision of a unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs) fighting …
The U.S. Army Air Forces Strips Its Planes of Paint
All the military powers in World War II used camouflage paint schemes for their aircraft. The main purpose was to …
Inside A CV-22 Osprey
The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force released a video showing the arrival of a CV-22 Osprey at Dayton, …
The Skies Of Korea: The Air War for a New Era
The air war in Korea introduced silvery jets that clashed at the edge of the stratosphere, their swept-back wings glinting …
Airborne C4ISR Aircraft Survey
During World War II, as Nazi Germany’s Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor long-range reconnaissance bombers threatened the safety of vital naval …
Cmdr. Elmer F. Stone: Coast Guard Aviator No. 1
Of all the aviation pioneers who made their mark in the early decades of the 20th century, few had as …