An updated model of the renowned Albatross flying boat will be produced by the Australian company Amphibian Aerospace Industries A new variant of the renowned Albatross flying boat was produced…
History
History
Oberleutnant Oskar Romm, a member of the Luftwaffe Experten, flew his final mission while piloting a Focke-Wulf FW 190D-9
Oberleutnant Oskar Romm, the Gruppenkommandeur of IV./JG 3, was one extremely skilled Luftwaffe pilot who ended his war flying the Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9 One of Germany’s top fighter aircraft during…
At least 24 of the 80 Iraqi aircraft that were shot down by IRIAF air defenses between 16 January and 18 February 1983, according to several Western publications, were credited…
Airshows
Man on A Missile: Former Blue Angels CO explains why the Team chose the A-4 Skyhawk to Replace the F-4 Phantom
“The overall weight reduction was significant. We ended up with an airplane that weighed 11,300 pounds [dry] and we had an engine that produced 11,400 pounds thrust,” Ken Wallace former…
History
B-17 Pilot returned to England from a mission with bombs still aboard, seven injured crew members, and two engines on fire
The nation’s highest award was given to B-17 pilot 1st Lt. William R. Lawley Jr., for his gallantry, while flying a Flying Fortress bombing mission over Leipzig as part of…
Civil
Air traffic controller tells the story of when he asked for vertical separation to an SR-71 Blackbird crew in conflicting route with a Concorde Supersonic Airliner
‘I have a Concorde operating westbound on a conflicting route with you at 60,000ft. I need a 4,000ft vertical separation. Do I have it?’ Pete Clarke, former air traffic controller.…
History
To destroy a SAM installation, pilot Merlyn Dethlefsen made multiple passes while piloting a Thud heavily damaged by AAA and engaged by MiG-21s
Capt. Dethlefsen received the Medal of Honor for demonstrating exceptional bravery above and beyond the call of duty. On February 1st, 1968, President Johnson made the presentation in the White…
“Ultimately, all of the U.S. airlines canceled their orders for the Concorde for economic as well as environmental reasons. John Anderson and I were tremendously disappointed,” Paul Roitsch, Captain with…
History
To operate from Arctic Staging Bases, the Convair XB-36 Peacemaker was equipped with Track-Type Landing Gear
The SAC briefly used the XB-36 as a training aid in June 1948 while awaiting the production of the 7th Bombardment Group’s first B-36A Consolidated Vultee (later Convair), in response…
Humor
UN Aircrew tricked passengers into thinking their plane was going to crash during a leaf landing at Herat
There were still a lot of hostilities at the time, so the pilots did what is called a falling leaf landing at Herat airport ‘First flight in Afghanistan, 2002. It…