A century ago, the U.S. Navy commissioned the USS Langley—an ungainly new ship that would forever change military aviation.
underway—but not without nosing over and damaging the wood propeller of his Aeromarine 39 trainer
A new online interactive experience from the National Air and Space Museum explores the history of the USS Shenandoah
logging 740 hours in the air and covering about 28,000 miles on flights designed to train
Pulling back the curtain on artifacts in storage.
Wearing her company uniform, Maxwell stands in front of the Upsal train station in
This past September, the National Championship Air Races took a final lap in the Reno, Nevada venue.
They are high-performance machines that were made either to go to war or to train
Astronauts headed to Mars and beyond won’t be able to depend on Earth for a quick response in the event of a medical emergency.
his desire for onsite medical care: “Hell, if they can take a naval aviator and train
A new book reveals how badly the Soviets wanted to win the early space race.
Geoghegan (The History Press, 2022) How the U.S. airship almost replaced planes, trains
Pamela Melroy, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, is now NASA’s deputy administrator. During her career as an Air Force pilot, Melroy logged more than 6,000 flight hours, serving in both Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. After NASA selected her as an astronaut candidate in 1994, she would be assigned to three space shuttle missions, and she is one of only two women to ever command a space shuttle. Melroy recently spoke about her long career in aerospace with Jennifer Levasseur, a curator in the National Air and Space Museum’s department of space history.
It’s more effective anyway if you can train as a group—particularly with simulator
An interview with Paul Hendrickson, the son of a P-61 World War II night-fighter pilot.
mission until June 1944, when it penetrated German airspace to bomb and strafe trains
German forces pushing into the Soviet Union felt nearly invincible—until they met the Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik.
and unfinished aircraft) had to move over a railway network already jammed with trains
Astronomers are deciphering the violent history of the Milky Way, one star at a time.
The streamers, on the other hand, are like great freight trains with hundreds or
