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150 Holes, Zero Quit: Kim Campbell’s A-10 Miracle Over Baghdad

The caution panel lights up like a Christmas tree. The stick goes dead. The jet rolls left, nose pitching toward the Tigris River and the rooftops of Baghdad below. Captain Kim “Killer Chick” Campbell has maybe two seconds to decide: eject over one of the...

The Dam Busters: Bouncing Bombs at 60 Feet

History & Legends, Military Aviation

On the night of 16–17 May 1943, nineteen specially modified Avro Lancaster bombers roared across the English Channel at treetop level, carrying a weapon that defied every known principle of aerial bombardment. Their target: the massive hydroelectric dams of...

Inside VMX-1: The Marine Test Pilot Who Decides What Flies

Military Aviation

Major Alec “Cosmo” Rackish grew up in Williamsport, Pennsylvania — a town better known for Little League baseball than for producing test pilots. But Rackish followed the path that a small number of Marine aviators walk: flight school, fleet squadron, Test...

21 Hours of Talks, Then a Blockade

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For twenty-one hours, diplomats talked. Vice President JD Vance sat across from Iranian and Pakistani negotiators in Islamabad, working through the night on what was supposed to be a path out of the war. By Sunday morning, the path was gone. The sticking point —...

150 Holes, Zero Quit: Kim Campbell’s A-10 Miracle Over Baghdad

The Dam Busters: Bouncing Bombs at 60 Feet

Inside VMX-1: The Marine Test Pilot Who Decides What Flies

21 Hours of Talks, Then a Blockade

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150 Holes, Zero Quit: Kim Campbell’s A-10 Miracle Over Baghdad

The Dam Busters: Bouncing Bombs at 60 Feet

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