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A former U.S. Air Force officer explains why the Me 262 is so important to aviation history: The Germans have long been innovators in the...
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A former U.S. Air Force officer explains why the Me 262 is so important to aviation history: The Germans have long been innovators in the...
Ah, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. One of the most iconic warbirds of WWII, and one of America’s Big Three heavy bombers of that...
5 Best Fighter Jets of All Time, Ranked – So then, which warbirds deserve to be ranked as The 5 Best Jet Fighters of...
Apart perhaps from the B-17 “Flying Fortress,” no other World War II aircraft is as famous as the Supermarine Spitfire. The British-made single-seat fighter...
The Bell OH-58 Kiowa is not as recognizable as other U.S. Army helicopters. People recognize the insectile AH-64 Apache on sight. The UH-60 Black...
Pilots of Air Force B-52 and B-1 bombers, SR-71, U-2 spy plane, and tanker aircraft have all been trained and prepared for operations over...
Out of 214 Ar 234s built, there remains one sole survivor today. It is on display at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in...
The He 178 made her maiden flight – with Flugkapitan (Flight Captain) Erich Warsitz at the controls – on 27 August 1939, a mere four days before the...
In the past few months, I’ve written about the (most likely apocryphal) SR-91 Aurora spy plane, which supposedly could hit speeds of Mach 5,...
During the SR-71 “Blackbird’s” more than 25-year-long service history – which ran from its first flight in 1964 through retirement in 1999 – not...