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The SA-7 grail: man-portable missile packs a punch.(ARSENAL)
Vietnam; 2/1/2010; 914 words; ...While the Strela-2 (SA-7a) was fired from behind the target, the Strela-2M (SA-7b), introduced in 1972, could home in on an aircraft engine cowling to engage incoming targets. Grails downed 10 AH-1 Cobras, dozens of UH-1 Hueys, one TA...

Kamikaze killer: the naval version of the Spitfire had its share of teething troubles, but by the end of World War II it had found its sea legs in the Pacific.(Supermarine Seafire )
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 3708 words; ...Early Royal Navy operations during the invasion of Norway and subsequent actions in the Mediterranean against the Italians drove home the fact that the Fleet Air Arm was not capable of engaging existing Luftwaffe fighters--or bombers, for that matter...

The 'old bus' endures: Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith's famous Fokker Southern Cross has pride of place in Brisbane.(RESTORED)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 2055 words; ...aircraft. The name Southern Cross was a nod to the constellation that the Australian pilot and copilot hoped would help guide them home, and was originally supplemented by Faegol Flyer, a reference to a truck manufacturer, and The Spirit of California. Those...

All about Amelia.(LETTER FROM AVIATION HISTORY)(Amelia Earhart)
Aviation History; 1/1/2010; 934 words; ...viewable documents, photos and biographical information. It also includes links to other Earhart-related sites, such as the home page of the Ninety-Nines, the international organization of women pilots that Earhart helped found in 1929. That organization...

Teddy Suhren's last patrol: long-lost photographs document the final mission of a U-boat rebel.(submarine skipper Reinhard "Teddy" Suhren)(Cover story)
World War II; 1/1/2010; 4962 words; ...in the surface navy, transferred to U-boats. There, among the individualists of the elite U-boat service, he found a home for his diminutive stature, incipient talents, and maverick tendencies. "In this other world," he wrote in his memoir...