When four F-104s were training for the type’s “introduction-into-service” demonstration in June 1962 and crashed in formation, killing all four pilots, it was a very terrible start for the Starfighter…
The F-16 program changed the fighter forces of the USAF The 388th Fighter Wing (FW), now more well known as the Viper, was to be the first squadron to switch…
Instead of an accidental combining of two planes in midair, the Germans believed the “Piggyback” was a brand-new eight-engine warplane that the Allies had developed! Germans believed it to be…
Before an estimated 35,000 spectators, the British Airways and Air France Concorde supersonic aircraft approached from the south and touched down next to each other less than two seconds apart.…
When the Dornier Do 217 used the radio-guided, free-fall “Fritz X” weapon to sink the Italian battleship Roma, it made aviation history by being the first military aircraft to use…
The T-12 Cloudmaker was twice as big and weighed 44,000 lb overall. It was based on the British-designed 22,000lb (10,000kg) Grand Slam created by British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis during…
‘German fighters could be seen coming up from the ground and I have never seen so many at one time,’ Captain Robert K. Morgan, pilot of B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis…
The Bf 109 that initially attacked him was swerving to catch up to the G.1, but 1e Lt. Gerben Sonderman employed the Fokker’s superior maneuverability to turn into a firing…
“Washington” was the Royal Air Force (RAF) designation for the famous Boeing B-29, one example of which, the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. “Washington” was the…
The 187th Fighter Wing of the Alabama Air National Guard’s F-16 Vipers carries on the Tuskegee Airmen’s legacy The Tuskegee Airmen’s legacy has given the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW)…