The Tuskegee Airmen's 332nd Fighter Group flew over 200 WWII bomber escort missions with an exceptionally low loss rate - a record earned through discipline, not circumstance.
TaildraggerHow Robin Olds and the Wolfpack disguised F-4 Phantoms as bombers and destroyed seven MiG-21s in twelve minutes over Hanoi.
TaildraggerHow F-4 pilot Bob Pardo used his jet's nose to push a crippled wingman out of North Vietnam in 1967 - one of aviation's boldest maneuvers.
TaildraggerHow Captain Bob Pardo pushed a crippled F-4 Phantom nearly 100 miles over Laos in 1967 using his own windscreen.
TaildraggerHow F-4 pilot Bob Pardo pushed a crippled Phantom nearly 90 miles to safety over Vietnam in 1967, a feat known as Pardo's Push.
TaildraggerThe crew of B-17 'Old 666' earned two Medals of Honor and a DSC for every man - the most decorated flight in U.S. history.
TaildraggerOn June 5, 1944, over 800 C-47 crews flew paratroopers into Normandy through flak and cloud, launching the D-Day invasion.
TaildraggerA ranked look at the five most powerful US Navy aircraft carriers ever built, from the postwar Midway class to the electromagnetic-launch Ford class.
TowerOn May 27, 1958, the McDonnell F-4 Phantom made its first flight - an unwanted jet that became the defining fighter of a generation.
TaildraggerEight aircraft defined supersonic flight from Chuck Yeager's Mach 1 in 1947 to the X-15's Mach 6.7 record that still stands today.
TowerHow 16 P-38 Lightnings flew 435 miles at wave-top height to intercept and kill Admiral Yamamoto in April 1943.
TaildraggerOperation Eagle Claw's 1980 desert failure killed eight Americans and reshaped U.S. special operations aviation forever.
TaildraggerOn April 20, 1916, the Lafayette Escadrille formed as American volunteer pilots joined France's air war a full year before the U.S. entered WWI.
TaildraggerThe Women Airforce Service Pilots flew 77 military aircraft types in WWII, yet waited 33 years for veterans' status.
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