World War I Historic Happenings • A Tribute To “Hank” Collins, Jr. • The Museum’s Concrete Section of the Berlin Wall • The Historic Fokker D.VII on Display
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
It started as an observation platform and rapidly evolved into a weapon. By the end of the war it was realized that if you control the skies above a battlefield you will win the battle.