There were never any P-47 dual-seat trainers produced, and some pilots considered the step up in performance from the Texan to the Thunderbolt to be too difficult to handle The…
A Christmas miracle was developing at the time. The German ace Franz Stigler’s Bf 109 was poised for an easy kill since the American B-17 bomber was crippled and defenseless…
In addition to downing 278 German night fighters, the Mosquitoes also caused a number of German planes to crash when performing emergency landings to avoid the Mosquitoes (real or imagined)…
A Martin RB-57D Canberra high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft was brought down by an S-75 Dvina surface-to-air missile fired by China’s People’s Liberation Army 2nd surface-to-air missile battalion on October 7, 1959…
As he flew above the target area for 30 minutes, Howard attacked the enemy, shooting down three and damaging a fourth to become the first fighter ace for the Merlin…
At just 19 years old, Katherine Stinson was one of the first American women to get a pilot’s license in 1912. Katherine Stinson, who was born on February 14, 1891,…
In order to make room for it in the Castle Air Museum’s permanent collection, the MC-130P #66-0212 that took part in the special forces raid on Son Tay to free…
As the war came to an end, technology advanced quickly, and the first jet aircraft were pitted against or alongside the most powerful piston-engined types the world had ever seen.…
The Chinese Embassy in central Belgrade was one of the B-2’s objectives, and when it was struck by three GPS-Aided Munitions on May 7, 1999, it led to the OAF’s…
The USAAF lost 214 soldiers in Romania, according to the Romanian Gendarmerie, but several B-24 aircraft had crew members who were so badly burned that it was impossible to identify…