“The airplane stopped right opposite the captain’s bridge. There was cheering and laughing. There on the side of the fuselage, a big sign had been painted on that said, “LOOK…
“The airspeed indicator was stuck in the red danger zone, which is over 1100kph. I noticed that rivets began popping out of the tops of the wings. The aircraft began…
The F-100 Super Sabre significantly altered the US Air Force. Chuck Yeager’s orange-painted Bell X-1 broke the sound barrier in level flight for the first time on October 14, 1947.…
In July and August 1944 approximately 30 percent of RAF Bomber Command sorties and tonnage was directed against V-1 and V-2 sites, as was about 20 percent of US Eighth…
Muri’s bomber was hit, injuring three crew members, but he continued on, firing a torpedo onto the aircraft carrier Akagi before trying to flee the barrage of fire unleashed by…
‘I can see a scenario where a Soviet captain, during the height of the Cold War, would want to surface his sub in the middle of an American carrier task…
However, if it had been put into production more quickly, the BV 155 might have proven valuable in battling the most modern, high-flying Allied reconnaissance aircraft Through the pages of…
“As for my personal experience with it, I must say that I fired eight rounds of Phoenix missiles in total, from different positions and angles, which all hit their targets”…
One of the most iconic images of the American daytime bombing campaign over Germany was taken on April 8, 1945, and it serves as the post’s primary image One of…
The museum will receive for restoration and permanent display the last F-14 (BuNo 164603) to ever fly, number 711 of 712 made, from the Grumman Memorial Park in Bethpage. The…