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…
There is an auction for the sidestick controller from the F-16A #78-0322. The former Israeli Air Force fighter was one of six aircraft that attacked Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor in…
Some of the details of these flights are still shrouded in historical obscurity, partly because the 14-hour Wake Island to Port Moresby sector required the B-17D bombers to fly (illegally)…
‘Intelligence reported that the SA-2 couldn’t track below 1500 ft. We were disturbed to see that their assessment was incorrect’, Lt Lyle Bull, A-6 Intruder B/N Throughout the Vietnam War,…
Three months after V-E Day, on August 20, 1945, the B-36 Peacemaker strategic bomber was presented. Its first flight took place on August 8, 1946 Before the US entered World…