Stragglers on Attu

Oct, 06 , 22

Imperial Japan invaded and occupied the Aleutian Islands in June 1942. These small, remote islands off the Alaskan coast are barely habitable but, being relatively close to Japan, did have...

Junkers After Dessau

Sep, 16 , 22

Hugo Junkers was an engineering professor who designed several all-metal or mostly metal military aircraft during the First World War. He officially founded an aircraft and engine manufacturing company in...

Convertible Tomcat

Aug, 19 , 22

Black Lion One is a biography of US Navy captain John Monroe “Hawk” Smith, focused on his time in command of VF-213, an F-14 Tomcat squadron. Hawk Smith was  a...

WWII Weekend

Aug, 19 , 22

The Second World War comes to Reading, Pennsylvania, every summer, when the Mid Atlantic Air Museum hosts WWII Weekend. WWII Weekend is a combined air show and reenactment. The air...

The Flying Dorito

Jul, 20 , 22

The US Navy kicked off the Advanced Tactical Aircraft Program in 1983. The goal of the program was to procure a replacement for the Grumman A-6 Intruder. At the time,...

Flak-Bait

Jul, 07 , 22

“Flak-Bait” is a Martin B-26 Marauder, which is currently located within the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar, an annex of the Udvar-Hazy Center, which is an annex of the National...

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