In September 1941, the Fw 190 entered combat over northwest France and quickly established its dominance over the Mark V Spitfire, Britain’s greatest fighter at the time One of Germany’s…
Jet fighter generations are divisions made to distinguish significant technological advances in the past development of jet fighters To distinguish between significant technological advances in the historical development of jet…
Exclusive to the United States Air Force, the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor is a cutting-edge stealth tactical fighter jet. The F-22 Raptor has demonstrated its ability to engage an enemy,…
The empty weight of the CH-37 was 20,800 pounds and the maximum takeoff weight was 31,000 pounds. This gave a useful load of just over 10,000 pounds. The useful load…
This article highlights a few of the more comprehensive sites One of the most prominent and ubiquitous memorials of this tragic struggle is the Second World War airfields scattered throughout…
The ship’s crew takes advantage of the pilot’s navigational error and makes sure their mistake does not go unnoticed by properly branding the visiting aircraft before departure. Actually, quite a…
The impressive video in this post was taken after a six-and-a-half-hour drive to Preswick airport in Scotland to capture the Antonov An-225. Filmed by our friend Dafydd Phillips on Aug.…
There are multiple reports of the aerial combats between American and Soviet aircraft on May 8 and thereafter. After Adolf Hitler died by suicide on April 30, 1945, the Third…
We now had to figure out just how we were going to land this flying dart because, with the wings back, we had no flaps and or use of our…
Frantiek Brezina slipped on the bottom wing, but he was fortunate enough to keep his hands on the struts while his legs were dangling from the wing. The public is…