Tuskegee Airmen – Charles McGee

Lockheed’s Supersonic Drone – the GTD-21B • The First Black Military Aviator
Current Happenings
Artwork of Bob Bales and the USAF Art Program • Women In Aviation Articles • The WASPS of WWII • “That’s All…Brother” and D-Day
March 1, 2019
March 23, 2023
March 2023 Flight Lines

Flight Lines March 2023

March 11, 2022
March 2023 Flight Lines

Women’s History Month

Women’s Veteran’s Memorial
February 1, 2022

Remembering Birmingham’s Richard Macon

On a bet, Richard Macon, a Birmingham native andgraduate of Miles College in Fairfield, AL with abachelor’s degree in mathematics, took the entranceexams for the U. […]
January 1, 2022

Remembering Walter Ray, CIA Pilot
Tragic Crash of an Lockheed A-12 • A New Blackbird? Air America CIA Pilot • Visits Museum

n January 5, 1967, a sister-ship of our museum’sLockheed A-12 (Article 131) was returning from atraining flight to the now well-known CIA’s advancedaviation research facility base […]
December 1, 2021

Wright Flyer Monument at Maxwell AFB
Birmingham’s 150th Anniversary • Wright Brothers Day The Third USS Birmingham • A Year of Transformation • The Watch That Came In From The Cold

Wright Brothers Day commemorates the first successful flight of the Wright Flyer I, heavier-thanair powered aircraft built by Orville and Wilbur Wright. It took place on […]

n the 1960s, Lockheed’s secret Skunk Works developed the Mach 3, A-12 reconnaissance aircraft for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) along with the concept of a long-range drone that used much of the A-12’s technology.

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