The B-17 prototype, known as the Model 299, crashed on October 30, 1935, at Wright Airfield in Ohio, killing two of the five crew members on board, including the pilot…
When a British Airways Captain got sucked out of a BAC One-Eleven a flight attendant grabbed his legs and avoided him going out completely
With the captain pinned against the window frame for twenty minutes, the first officer landed at Southampton Airport British Airways Flight 5390 was a flight from Birmingham Airport in England…
Bismarck was vulnerable to attack from Royal Navy Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers because its guns couldn’t target slowly moving aircraft
16 Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal attacked the Bismarck as it was on her way toward occupied France to carry out repairs The…
On the radio, Kelly Johnson instructed Tony LeVier on how to land the U-2 front wheel first during the maiden flight at the Ranch In Lockheed’s “Skunk Works” in Burbank,…
When Capt. James Jabara was nearly shot down by future ace Capt. Boris Abakumov
Jabara of the 334th FS/4th FW dived alone after his sixth MiG was downed in F 86A 5 49 1318, making him the first “ace” of the jet age. This…
Nobody ever shot down a Blackbird. Nonetheless, 12 of them crashed out of combat The SR-71 Blackbird acquired intelligence during its service in some of the most difficult environments on…
When a pilot of an F-101 once attempted to compete against an SR-71
‘On takeoff roll, an F-101 came upon our wing; he was going to race us whether we wanted to or not,’ Richard “Butch” Sheffield, SR-71 Blackbird Reconnaissance Systems Officer The…
The time a P-51D pilot took off on a mission in a Mustang and an RTB took off in a German FW 190
The Kommandogerat, a system of the FW 190A series that allowed boost pressure, fuel flow, mixture setting, and prop control with a single lever, made it virtually the only World…
The Royal Netherlands Navy’s NH90 and the Royal Navy’s AW101 Merlin helicopters perform a Mach loop.
‘It’s been a long time since I last captured an AW101 Merlin in the Loop and to cap it off, a Royal Netherlands Navy NH90 dropped by to say hello,’…
Twelve B-25s attacked a rocky outcrop in the Alps in 1945 in an effort to spark a landslide that would block a road
Operation Glass Knob was the cover name for the mission. In order to create a landslide that would block the road, a colonel decided to bomb the rocky outcrop of…