First Aerial Victory of the Red Baron
An Albatros DII piloted by Manfred von Richthofen attacked right away when he saw a British F.E. 2b near the back of the British formation On September 17, 1916, two…
An Albatros DII piloted by Manfred von Richthofen attacked right away when he saw a British F.E. 2b near the back of the British formation On September 17, 1916, two…
The F-18 Hornet was created as the first all-weather fighter and attack aircraft for the US military. It could perform conventional strike tasks like interdiction and close air support without…
On the B-17E, the tail gunner may have been the most important gunner. He used two.50 caliber machine guns to defend the back quarter of the aircraft. The tail guns…
Since the late 1940s, pilots have loved and imitated Chuck Yeager’s laconic, folksy drawl Every time you sit on a plane while traveling for the holidays, a voice that is…
Vulcan XA897 hit the ground and bounced back into the air a few hundred yards short of the runway. Only the pilot and co-pilot got ejection seats despite the Vulcan…
As the first pilot to purposefully ram a B-17 Flying Fortress, Sergeant Oda Tadao received praise in the Japanese media and received a posthumous promotion. It is unlikely that the…
“I could not avoid a feeling of irritation when I pictured our Mirage colleagues as they attended their Bastille barbecues on this midsummer’s day,” Alan Winkles, former RAF Phantom pilot “The…
Black Mike left RAF Cosford after a year following its well-received appearance at the RAF100 celebration during the 2018 Cosford Airshow The most recent development in the life of Phantom…
Trains were never safe from roaming P-47 Thunderbolts on armed reconnaissance missions. Yet German strategies quickly made strafing them a difficult and risky task Late in December 1944, as Col.…
According to the story, President Johnson intended to call the Blackbird the “RS-71,” but he misread the letters, and said “SR-71.” The following story appears in Col. Richard H. Graham’s book…