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   (341+ words) von Tamika Johnson | Aug 30, 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt | 0 Kommentare The men who joined the most exclusive club in the world had all paid the same terrible entrance fee: they had been burned, often beyond recognition, in the cockpits of burning…...

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…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (493+ words) par Tamika Johnson | 17 août 2026 | Histoire et légendes | 0 commentaire 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…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (514+ words) by Max Grünwald | Aug 23, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments Before the Lancaster, before the B-17, before the very idea of a four-engined heavy bomber was settled doctrine, one already existed — and it was bombing London. The Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI, built…...

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…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (525+ words) von Max Grünwald | Aug 31, 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt | 0 Kommentare On 15 July 1941, a 28-year-old German pilot did something no one in the history of flight had done before: he shot down his hundredth aircraft. Werner Mölders had reached a number that…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (326+ words) di Connor Kerr | 2 agosto 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 commenti This is the bomber that lived in the Lancaster’s shadow — and, in several ways that mattered, quietly outdid it. The Halifax first flew in October 1939 and entered Bomber Command service…...

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…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (375+ words) by Connor Kerr | Jul 30, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments It is a strange kind of fame for a machine originally designed to do something quite unglamorous: pick up sick and injured people and fly them to hospital. Quick Facts: Bell…...