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  • Robert A. “Bob” Hoover talks about his World War II experiences at EAA AirVenture in 2011.

    Bob Hoover: Remembering the Pilots’ Pilot

    Fighter pilot, test pilot, aerobatic pilot: Bob Hoover is considered the greatest of all by airmen worldwide It took Flight Officer Robert A. “Bob” Hoover more than two years...

  • An MQ-9 Reaper sits on the flightline at Creech Air Force Base, Nev., the Reaper is capable of carrying both precision-guided bombs and air-to-ground missiles.

    The Rise of Unmanned Aircraft

    From inauspicious biplane beginnings to near mastery of the skies above combat zones, UAVs have a rich history....

  • Two F-16Cs from the 121st Fighter Squadron, 113th Wing, District of Columbia Air National Guard, fly over the nation’s capital during a combat air patrol in support of Operation Noble Eagle.

    “Lucky” Penney on 9/11

    Fifteen years ago on a sunny September day, civil aviation as we knew it changed forever. So too did the lives of all Americans, as the horrifying spectacle of airliners crashing...

  • At the Carolinas Aviation Museum in 2011, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger sits in the cockpit of the Airbus A320 he ditched in the Hudson River on January 15, 2009.

    Sully Speaks Out

    The “Miracle on the Hudson” was no miracle; it was the culmination of a 35-year military and airline flying career Captain Chesley Sullenberger was the right person, in the...

  • “Incendiary Journey,” a B-29 Superfortress from the 6th Bombardment Group, lives up to its name on June 1, 1945, over Osaka, Japan.

    Letter From Aviation History: Collateral Damage

    At what point did it become morally acceptable to bomb civilians? Two articles in the September 2016 issue examine tipping points in the history of strategic bombing that led to...

  • Following the same tactic used in their March 1945 raid on Tokyo, B-29s of the Twentieth Air Force set the port of Kobe ablaze on June5.

    When Fire Rained From the Sky

    The first low-level B-29 raid on Tokyo introduced a terrifying new tactic in the war against Japan On the night of March 9-10, 1945, U.S. Twentieth Air Force B-29s burned down 7...

  • A Heinkel He219 Uhu 'Eagle Owl' shoots down an RAF Lancaster over Germany, late 1944.

    Night Owl

    Heinkel produced one of the most innovative night fighters of World War II, but Nazi bureaucrats repeatedly shot it down There were many night fighters in World War II, but only...

  • The Curtiss C-46 Commando became the air transport heavyweight champ of World War II.

    Going Commando

    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...


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Aviation History magazine is an authoritative, in-depth history of world aviation from its origins to the Space Age. Aviation History offers air enthusiasts the most detailed coverage of the history of manned flight, with action-packed stories and illustrations that put the reader in the cockpit with pilots and military (Army, Navy, and Marines) aviators to experience aviation’s greatest dramas.

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