Stories Collection

  1. Roger Miller began publishing his research on the military career of Lt. Gen. Lewis B...
  2. In March 17, 1961 a lone T-38 Talon streaked over Austin, Texas, headed for Randolph ...
  3. We thought something big was about to happen. It was the middle of January 1945 and t...
  4. Once in a Blue Moon: Airmen in Theater Command. Lauris Norstad, Albrecht Kesselring, ...
  5. Rene Leduc: Pionnier de la propulsion reaction. By Jean Lacroze and Philippe Rico. Pa...
  6. The Complete Idiot's Guide to NASA. By Thomas D. Jones and Michael Benson. Indianapol...
  7. Reflections and Remembrances: Veterans of the United States Army Air Forces Reminisce...
  8. The National Aviation Hall of Fame's (NAHF) 41st Annual Enshrinement Ceremony will ta...
  9. Francis S. Gabreski 1919-2002 America's top living fighter ace and top-scoring...
  10. On the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's historic flig...
  11. Historiography and Air Power History: Caveat Reader When we read history; we do no...
  12. Pushing the Envelope: The American Aircraft Industry. By Donald M. Patillo. Ann Arbor...
  13. The dramatic story of Charles Lindbergh's arrival in Paris after a suspenseful flight...
  14. Sir, I'd have gone for the head of the snake on the first night. I'd have turned the ...
  15. Hit to Kill: The New Battle over Shielding America from Missile Attack. By Bradley Gr...
  16. History of Rocketry and Astronautics: Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth and Twenty-Nin...
  17. Twenty-four Air Power History readers correctly identified our "What is it?" aircraft...
  18. U.S. Eyes of Artillery: The Origins of Modern Army Aviation in World War II. By Edgar...
  19. World War I was won by brawn, and World War II by logistics. World War III will be wo...
  20. RAE Squadrons: A Comprehensive Record of the Movement and Equipment of All RAE Squadr...
  21. The government of the Republic of China (ROC) left mainland China in 1949 for Taiwan....
  22. Professional Military Education in the United States: A Historical Dictionary. Edited...
  23. In an interview with the air component commander of NATO's "air effort" against Serbi...
  24. The Last Battle: The Mayaguez Incident and the End of the Vietnam War. By Ralph Wette...
  25. While the preponderance of air power history focuses on the planning and execution of...
  26. Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation through World War I. By Herbert A. Johnson. Chapel...
  27. Fortress Against the Sun: The B-17 Flying Fortress in the Pacific. By Gene Eric Salec...
  28. Secretaries and Chiefs of Staff of the United States Air Force. By George M. Watson, ...
  29. This issue's lead article, "Black Cat Squadron," by Gen. Hsichun Mike Hua, ROCAF (Ret...
  30. Air Power History has finally outwitted Philip A. Lathrap of Lafayette, California. I...
  31. Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite. By Roger D. Launius, J...
  32. Col. Vincent T. Ford 1907-2001 Born in Winsted, Connecticut, on September 12, 1907, ...
  33. Give the C-130 Its Due Betty Raab Kennedy's AMST piece [Air Power History, Vol. 48, ...
  34. Loitering in the background and gathering credibility is the specter of increased au...
  35. In the U.K., the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is to provide funds for the ...
  36. >>For the U.S. DoD UAV roadmap: http://www.iasa.com.au/roadmap.htm. RoboLander...
  37. The common denominator for the generic DC-10 and its spawned sub-types would seem to...
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  41. Anyone rejoicing over the space shuttle's safe return, as a catharsis of earlier dis...
  42. By Richard Reek Despite all the attention being paid to tank flammability reduction...
  43. When a C-5B Galaxy crashed on approach to Dover Air Force Base Delaware last April 3...
  44. A 30-Hour Day Defense Mechanism The part that fatigue had played in setting the sce...
  45. Simon says is a game for three or more players. One of the players is "it"...
  46. With Double Flame-outs, The Stress is Additive When a Pinnacle Airlines regional je...
  47. Braking Old Habit Patterns and Pulling a Stop to Runway Overruns Hardly a day goes ...
  48. When an MK Airlines 747 freighter ran off the end of runway 24 in Halifax Nova Scoti...
  49. Although the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is requiring all turbojet operato...
  50. For 4.5 hours last Thursday, air traffic controllers at the world's busiest airport ...
  51. In issuing its advance notice on June 7 of a new policy on landing distances, FAA in...
  52. In a little-noticed development, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is...
  53. Engine/nacelle: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) -- Airbus A300 airplanes, equip...
  54. Although the air traffic controllers and House Democrats vow to continue their fight...
  55. FAA's policy for aircraft manufacturers (or "design approval holders") to ...
  56. The Professional Airways Systems Specialists (PASS) says that a new federal audit co...
  57. The divergent airport-security approaches of two facial-recognition firms, Advanced ...
  58. Not surprisingly, federal auditors at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) bel...
  59. A group of congressional Democrats is calling on their colleagues on the House Appro...
  60. TSA is slowly increasing general aviation's (GA) access to Washington, D.C's Ronald ...
  61. Wiring: Final rule -- Bombardier DHC-8-102, -103, -106, -201, -202, - 301, -311, and ...
  62. As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its division, the Transportation Se...
  63. Although UK air safety officials recently recommended that the FAA promulgate specif...
  64. What: May 2, probable cause determination Based on: On Nov. 28, 2004, a Canadair, L...
  65. Although unmanned aircraft (UA) are still largely confined to experimental uses in u...
  66. What: "Executive summary" of a safety report (to be released later) discus...
  67. After several months of wrangling, the United States and Venezuela have avoided a st...
  68. A "suspicious device" uncovered at the checkpoint April 19 at Hartsfield- J...
  69. ... is how FAA Administrator Marion Blakey now describes her agency's current contra...
  70. In response to a now infamous Northwest Airlines flight on June 29, 2004, in which 1...
  71. While the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) April 18 proposal to mitigate wide...
  72. Increasingly, security firms are striving to meet U.S. airport operators' needs by i...
  73. Turbofan engines: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) -- General Electric Co. (GE) C...
  74. More dispatchers for airborne "medivac" services could come to resemble ai...
  75. Hong Kong Int'l Airport (HKG) may be the first major airport in the world using an a...
  76. While last week's settlement agreement between the Federal Air Marshall Service (FAM...
  77. Following is the text of last week's internal, broadcast email from Federal Air Mars...
  78. Federal officials' preparations for a new rulemaking on airport deicing is bound to ...
  79. Instead of using only its security staff to look out for suspicious goings-on, Halif...
  80. Representatives for the nation's aircraft repair stations are locking horns with the...
  81. Fuel tank explosions: Supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) ? Boeing 757...
  82. What: Aircraft Accident Brief Based on: May 24, 2003, Southwest Airlines Flight 206...
  83. When it comes to initial signs of in-flight fire and smoke, the more pilots know and...
  84. In a ruling that could thwart terrorist planning at the expense of air travelers' pr...
  85. Contrary to media reports from last week, it's unlikely that data collected by federa...
  86. In the escalating war of words between the FAA and the principle controllers' union,...
  87. Last week, the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Office of Inspector General (...
  88. Fatigue cracks: Final rule -- Boeing model 737-100, -200, -200C, -300, - 400, and -50...
  89. A research project in California's Sierra Nevada mountains is attempting a major lea...
  90. A planned perimeter security system for four airports in the New York area will help...
  91. While the European Commission (EC) has chosen to ban 92 foreign airlines because of ...
  92. Passenger seats: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) - Sicma Aero Seat passenger se...
  93. What: March 24 recommendation. Based on: During routine maintenance of an Airbus A3...
  94. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) insists that its decision earlier this mon...
  95. As legislation to reform the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) moves slow...
  96. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) continues moving ahead with establishing a nationa...
  97. Instead of having to deal with the usual imprecise weather predictions, a state-of-t...
  98. One aspect of U.S. aviation security that has gotten scant attention so far -- airpo...
  99. While a much-publicized study released earlier this month raises the profile of avia...
  100. With the Government Accountability Office (GAO) telling Congress that the Transporta...
  101. Although the FAA is set to expand its regulations on icing conditions for aircraft m...
  102. Wiring safety: Final rule -- Boeing model 737-100, -200, -200C, -300, - 400, and -500...
  103. Two new runway technologies still in the testing phases will help pilots avoid colli...
  104. What: Report. Based on: An Oct. 12, 2004, crash into mountainous terrain of a Beech...
  105. Early last week, a spokesman for the air traffic controllers' union strongly objecte...
  106. Right on time, on Jan. 20, TSA announced several "parameters" to be used i...
  107. Beyond all the publicity around a recent government audit about the lack of oversigh...
  108. Just last week, Western Michigan University's (WMU) College of Aviation let on that ...
  109. Fuel system safety: Final rule, request for comments -- Airbus model A330-200 and -3...
  110. More precise, clearer imaging is on the way for passenger and bag screening, which wi...
  111. Well satisfied now with the technique and several years of experimentation, Alaska A...
  112. Two researchers with San Diego State University (SDSU) are exposing the health-safet...
  113. System Believed to Be First of Its Kind Within the next half year or so, two airpor...
  114. Back on Dec. 11, FAA's Flight Standards Service (AFS) created a separate division, t...
  115. In the latest development over the long-standing concerns about Cessna 208 series ai...
  116. Among its most important security priorities in the coming year, the Coalition of Ai...
  117. For the time being, last month's fatal shooting of a passenger by an air marshal at ...
  118. On Jan. 3, Kathryn O'Leary Higgins was sworn in as a member of the National Transpor...
  119. Here's the scenario: an inebriated passenger passes beyond the "just a little b...
  120. The Canadians are now providing to all holders of pilots' and aircraft maintenance e...
  121. Worries about terrorists shooting down a commercial airliner with shoulder-fired miss...
  122. "From the ashes of disaster can come the truth," is the breathless announc...
  123. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has grounded Sosoliso Airlines and Chanchangi A...
  124. A firestorm of controversy has been ignited by the notice of proposed rulemaking (NP...
  125. The TSA will probably be requiring background checks on anybody buying balsa wood or...
  126. Pilots, flight attendants, aircraft manufacturers and the flying public have much di...
  127. I give that landing a 9 - on the Richter scale. [Copyright 2005 Access Intelligence...
  128. On Oct. 22 near Clacton, England, a British Airways Airbus A319 lost all its primary...
  129. Flight control safety: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) - Embraer EMB-145 series...
  130. Recall that eight of nine fuel tank explosions are prevented through a combination o...
  131. Safety has a large role to play in the air and perhaps equally in the hanger shop. N...
  132. On Dec. 22, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) implements new aviation...
  133. Last week there were two incidents where apparent pranksters scrawled notes on lavat...
  134. Given that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will implement new procedures D...
  135. An urgent airworthiness directive (AD) was issued Nov. 15 by the Civil Aviation Safe...
  136. It only takes two things to fly - airspeed and money. [Copyright 2005 Access Intell...
  137. Note the price of ensuring structural integrity in the last two items, which may hav...
  138. By Billie Vincent The decision by the head of the Transportation Security Administr...
  139. If air carriers find they suddenly have more to do in reporting passengers with comm...
  140. A bomb can be readily smuggled aboard an airplane, argues Sgt. David Cortez, a 24-ye...
  141. The creation of a diversion bears on passenger Rigoberto Alpizar, 44, shot and kille...
  142. On Nov. 11, 60 years after the fact, the Arab Syrian Republic became the 123rd count...
  143. Dec. 7 marks the creation of the International Civil Aviation Association (ICAO) on ...
  144. "The introduction of VLJs [very light jets] into airspace used for scheduled co...
  145. Please note the Nov. 23 proposed mandate for fuel tank inerting. Electrical system ...
  146. A unique method of assessing fuel tank safety may in fact be the most suitable appro...
  147. It is not a good idea to put glass partitions in the cabin, argues the Air Crash Vic...
  148. The status accorded the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to its "Mos...
  149. "Certification standards need to be upgraded" for flight in icing condition...
  150. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has received thousands of comments in oppo...
  151. With the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) increasingly sending signals t...
  152. Thousandths of an amp are all the current that's needed, in the right conditions, to...
  153. Apropos of the danger posed by arcing in bad wires, the FAA has awarded a $1.5 milli...
  154. Bruce Byron, CEO of Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), earlier this...
  155. From the November issue of IFALPA News, the publication of the International Federat...
  156. Paul Tyler, member of the UK's Parliament, said Nov. 8 that ministers are finally ta...
  157. From Dec. 13 through Jan. 13, 2006, the Department of Defense (DoD) will be acceptin...
  158. From the autumn 2005 issue of CHIRP Feedback, the UK journal of the Confidential Hum...
  159. Safety in icing conditions: NPRM -- Airplane performance and handling qualities in i...
  160. Regarding the Aug. 14 Helios B737 crash, Akrivos Tsolakis, the head of the Greek Inv...
  161. The System for Aircrew Fatigue Evaluation (SAFE) model is a valuable tool for regula...
  162. Dr. Richard Dolbeer, an ornithologist with the Department of Agriculture at the Wild...