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Today of all days should be remembered! It is a sweltering Sunday and 78 years ago today the US dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan which some say made the war come to an end. There has been a debate lately around the use of these bombs....were they truly necessary? The anniversaries of the…

1 post published by lobotero on August 6, 2023

Thanks to a law passed in 1976, our nation's first president—who died more than 200 years ago—is still the military's highest-ranking official.

The Beechcraft Model 17 "Staggerwing" cuts an unusually sleek profile through aviation history.

During World War II, American crews found sanctuary—and fun—in the neutral Scandinavian country.

More than 13,000 training pilots lost their lives during WWII, including 12 aboard a B-24 that crashed trying to and at what is now Midway Airport.

On May 20, 1943, a B-24 bomber of the 1014th Pilot Transition Training Squadron took off from an Army airfield in Texas and headed to Chicago. The bomber’s crew was fated to be among the estimated total of more than 13,000 aviators killed in World War II training accidents.

The James Webb Space Telescope industry team, led by Northrop Grumman, has won the prestigious National Aeronautic Association Robert J. Collier Trophy for revo

Springtime saw more promotions for the Yellowstone Regional Composite Squadron of Civil Air Patrol.   Two of the newest members, Cadet Troy Hoover of Cody and Cadet Phu Nguyen of Powell, …

Lt. Benjamin Foulois, who flew out of San Antonio, liked to say he was ‘the first, and only, pilot in history to learn to fly by mail.’