3+ week, 2+ day ago   (233+ words) par Tamika Johnson | 20 août 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 commentaire In June 1981, a young Israeli pilot flew the most exposed position in one of the most audacious air raids in history. Twenty-two years later, that same man carried a Torah…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (485+ words) par Connor Kerr | 23 juillet 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 commentaire It shot down more enemy aircraft than any other Allied fighter of the First World War — and it killed a horrifying number of the young men sent up to fly…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (553+ words) di Connor Kerr | 5 agosto 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 commenti Part 8 of The Race for the Bomb, an Afterburner focus series. Part 7 left the three-billion-dollar B-29 failing at high altitude. This part is about the man who turned it around, the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (489+ words) di Filippo | 16 aprile 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 commenti Of the five Luftwaffe pilots in history to score more than 200 aerial victories, Otto Kittel is the least known — yet his record stands with the greatest of them. Two hundred and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (312+ words) por José Duncan | 5 de agosto de 2026 | Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar | 0 comentarios The finale of The Race for the Bomb, an Afterburner focus series. Nine parts brought the bomb from a London traffic light to Nagasaki. The last part answers…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (475+ words) di Tamika Johnson | 6 agosto 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 commenti Picture a single dirt runway hacked out of a jungle, ringed by palm stumps and bomb craters, with a handful of battered fighters parked in the mud. Every day it…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1446+ words) von Tamika Johnson | 28. Juni 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt | 0 Kommentare By sundown, his shipmates would have a name for what they had just done. A young fighter pilot named Ziggy Neff, climbing out of his cockpit, summed it up for the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1087+ words) by Connor Kerr | Aug 25, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments The Cold War never became a war. That is the headline fact, and it is easy to mistake it for evidence that the danger was overstated. It was not. On at…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1716+ words) Britain’s Cold War submarine-hunter: four screaming Griffons, a crew of ten, and up to sixteen hours over a grey Atlantic — the Lancaster’s loudest, longest-serving grandchild. “A hundred thousand rivets flying in loose formation” — the affectionate jibe that followed the Shackleton…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (153+ words) by Max Grünwald | Aug 22, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments That machine was radar, and the network built around it. More than the Spitfire or the Hurricane, it may have been the single most important reason Britain won the Battle of…...