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Surviving an aircraft pilot takes piloting skills and rigorous training.

All the military aircraft and some of the civilian ones in our collections have to be demilitarized before they go on display or into storage.

All the military aircraft and some of the civilian ones in our collections have to be demilitarized before they go on display or into storage.

The Museum's V-1 cruise missile gets a makeover ahead of its display in the new and upcoming Jay I. Kislak World War II in the Air gallery.

Wherever Soviet submarines went during the Cold War, they were likely being watched by P-3 Orions. 

The fully restored P-61 black widow is on display at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.

In 1935, a squad of U.S. bombers dropped a total of 20 of the 600-pound bombs on the lava channels in the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii.

The Curtiss F9C-2 Sparrowhawk was a light 1930s biplane fighter aircraft that was designed to launch from the United States Navy airships USS Akron and Macon.

An interview with Paul Hendrickson, the son of a P-61 World War II night-fighter pilot.

Over its long career, the P-3 Orion's superior engineering has allowed the U.S. military to achieve its goals.