1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1156+ words) par Tamika Johnson | 1er septembre 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 commentaire In February 1938, inside a Berlin exhibition hall, a 25-year-old woman hovered a helicopter between the walls. Nobody had flown a helicopter indoors before. The Focke-Achgelis Fa 61 was the first genuinely…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (600+ words) di Tamika Johnson | 17 agosto 2026 | Storia e leggende | 0 commenti He had thirteen American kills, a colonel’s rank, and a name that made young U.S. pilots go quiet: Colonel Toon. He was North Vietnam’s deadliest ace, the ghost every Navy flier feared…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1252+ words) von Tamika Johnson | Sep 1, 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt | 0 Kommentare In February 1938, inside a Berlin exhibition hall, a 25-year-old woman hovered a helicopter between the walls. Nobody had flown a helicopter indoors before. The Focke-Achgelis Fa 61 was the first genuinely controllable…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (741+ words) par Connor Kerr | 21 juillet 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 commentaire The Germans had radar too. Theirs was arguably better — Freya operated on a shorter wavelength, used a smaller steerable antenna, and gave sharper resolution than anything the British had strung…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (401+ words) von Joseph Duncan | Aug 31, 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt | 0 Kommentare His name was Edward Henry “Butch” O’Hare, and he became the US Navy’s first ace of the Second World War in about four minutes of flying. On 20 February 1942, the carrier USS…...

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…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1003+ words) par Tamika Johnson | 28 août 2026 | Histoire et légendes | 0 commentaire Just before eight on the morning of 7 December 1941, Cornelia Fort was doing touch-and-goes over Oahu with a student. She was 22, a civilian flight instructor with the Andrew Flying Service, and she was…...

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   (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…...