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May 2015

Features

To learn to shoot from a bomber, World War II airmen went to the movies.

David Sears

How Roosevelt’s fireside chat changed American industry and culture.

When the beaches were won, P-47 Thunderbolts were ready to take the air war to the ground.

Fighter pilots, crew chiefs, bombardiers, and factory workers: All have stories to tell.

Over the Atlantic in 1943, it was a battle of the bombers.

Rich Tuttle

The greatest tank battle in history might have ended differently had it not been for the action in the air.

Ralph Wetterhan

The biggest war in human history inspired hundreds of movies. One of them had to be the best.

Soundings

Families are paying big bucks to put their kids behind the stick.

Chris J. Bahnsen

Interview

Engineer, NASA Ames Research Center, California

Technically Speaking

Above & Beyond

To appreciate the majesty of Northern Quebec’s Pingualuit Crater, you’ve got to see it from an airplane

Charles O'Dale

Oldies and Oddities

Surveyor I’s Extended Family

William Mellberg

In the Museum

The conservation of a record-setting B-26 bomber will preserve every battle scar.

Tom Jones