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…...

4+ week, 18+ hour ago   (1711+ words) Poland’s gull-winged guardian — among the most advanced fighters in the world when it appeared in the early 1930s, obsolete by 1939, yet the aircraft that carried the weight of Poland’s air defence against the Luftwaffe. When the PZL P.11 first flew in…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (868+ words) por Tamika Johnson | 28 de agosto de 2026 | Historia y leyendas | 0 comentarios 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…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (358+ words) by Connor Kerr | Sep 2, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments The Blenheim did not begin as a warplane. It began as "Britain First," a sleek twin-engine transport commissioned by press baron Lord Rothermere to shame the Air Ministry into modernising. When…...

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…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (401+ words) by Joseph Duncan | Aug 31, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments 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…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (321+ words) by Tamika Johnson | Aug 22, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments In the last spring of the Second World War, Dutch children ran into the open fields as British bombers roared overhead, not to hide, but to wave. Because these Lancasters were…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (509+ words) by Tamika Johnson | Aug 7, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments On 11 June 1940, the people of Malta looked up at a sky suddenly full of Italian bombers and saw, rising to meet them, a handful of fabric-and-wire biplanes that looked like relics…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (677+ words) by Philippe | 9 avril 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 comments He was brash, self-promoting, possibly embellished his own record — and remains Canada's greatest military hero, with 72 confirmed aerial victories and a Victoria Cross that has been debated for a century. Billy…...

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…...