Frank Carlson Library

Maverick Mitchell, a daring young flyer in the U.S. Navy is out to become the best of the best at the Navy's prestigious fighter weapons school. Kelly McGillis sizzles as the civilian instructor who teaches Maverick a few things you can't learn in a classroom.

Reclusive renegade pilot Hawke, accompanied by his friend Dominic, uses a high-tech battle helicopter around the world in search of dangerous international spies and criminals.

An American naval aviator is shot down over Bosnia while in the midst of a routine reconnaissance mission during the Yugoslav War.

To children living in the rubble of post-war Germany, it was candy from heaven. Some saw it as a sign that somebody in America cared about them. To Colonel Gail "Hal" Halvorsen, who became known worldwide as the Candy Bomber, the Berlin Airlift was healing balm on the wounds of war. He and his fellow American pilots dropped more than two million tons of supplies and 23 tons of candy to German citizens and children during the Berlin Airlift. KUED presents...