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Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / Warbirds

“Collings Foundation B-17G Nine-O-Nine crashed because the pilot lowered the landing gear too early which lead to the aircraft landing short of the runway,” NTSB says

Apr 14 2021

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Military Aviation / Warbirds

A Mighty Fortress: why the Boeing B-17 is the best bomber ever built

Apr 5 2021

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Military Aviation / Warbirds

The story of the Nakajima Kikka, the Japanese Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe that never was

Oct 28 2020

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Military Aviation / Warbirds

The story of Cross Country, the only YB-29 Bomber Escorter ever built

Oct 19 2020

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Military Aviation / Warbirds

Did you know that the speeder bike sound effects in Return of the Jedi were created using samples of P-38 engine noise? Some interesting facts that made the Lightning the coolest military aircraft of WWII

Sep 23 2020

Dario Leone

Three injured in B-25 “Old Glory” crash landing in Stockton, California

Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / Warbirds

Three injured in B-25 “Old Glory” warbird crash landing in California

Sep 21 2020

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Military Aviation / Warbirds

The story of the de Havilland Hornet, the cool, forgotten successor of the famous Mosquito

Sep 9 2020

Dario Leone

Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / Warbirds

Here’s how the Royal Navy fixed the F4U shortcomings for which the US Navy deemed the Corsair unsuitable for aircraft carrier operations

Aug 20 2020

Dario Leone

Military Aviation / Warbirds

Cool video shows Warbirds arriving at Joint Base Pearl Harbor aboard USS Essex for the 75th Commemoration of the End of WWII

Aug 15 2020

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Military Aviation / Warbirds

Here’s why the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 German fighter aircraft created panic in the RAF when it appeared in late 1941

Aug 13 2020

Dario Leone

Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / Warbirds

Check out this dramatic photo of an F6F smashing into 6 other parked Hellcats with pilots aboard

Jul 4 2020

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Military Aviation / Warbirds

Did you know that during WWII German night fighter pilots suffered from “Moskitoschreck” (“Mosquito terror”)? Here’s why ‘The Wooden Wonder’ was the most feared Allied plane in WWII by the Axis

Jun 22 2020

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Military Aviation / Warbirds

The story of James Howard, the P-51 Mustang pilot who fought alone, for 30 minutes against Luftwaffe fighters to protect B-17 bombers egressing from skies over Germany

Jun 19 2020

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Military Aviation / Warbirds

Here’s why, also according to Adolf Galland, the Spitfire Mk.XIV (and not the P-51D) was the best piston-engined fighter of WWII in Europe

Jun 14 2020

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Military Aviation / Warbirds

How Japanese Zero-sen naval aviators turned the obsolete V formation into a formidable tactics in dealing with allied fighters during the early stages of the Pacific War

May 28 2020

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Military Aviation / Warbirds

The story of legendary test pilot Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown and the Seafire ‘crabbed’ landing

May 23 2020

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Military Aviation / Warbirds

Project Castor: the story of B-17 and B-24 bombers converted into flying bombs and aimed to destroy Luftwaffe’s V-1 sites

May 20 2020

Dario Leone

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“Collings Foundation B-17G Nine-O-Nine crashed because the pilot lowered the landing gear too early which lead to the aircraft landing short of the runway,” NTSB says

A Mighty Fortress: why the Boeing B-17 is the best bomber ever built

The story of the Nakajima Kikka, the Japanese Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe that never was

The story of Cross Country, the only YB-29 Bomber Escorter ever built

Did you know that the speeder bike sound effects in Return of the Jedi were created using samples of P-38 engine noise? Some interesting facts that made the Lightning the coolest military aircraft of WWII

Three injured in B-25 “Old Glory” warbird crash landing in California

The story of the de Havilland Hornet, the cool, forgotten successor of the famous Mosquito

Here’s how the Royal Navy fixed the F4U shortcomings for which the US Navy deemed the Corsair unsuitable for aircraft carrier operations

Cool video shows Warbirds arriving at Joint Base Pearl Harbor aboard USS Essex for the 75th Commemoration of the End of WWII

Here’s why the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 German fighter aircraft created panic in the RAF when it appeared in late 1941

Check out this dramatic photo of an F6F smashing into 6 other parked Hellcats with pilots aboard

Did you know that during WWII German night fighter pilots suffered from “Moskitoschreck” (“Mosquito terror”)? Here’s why ‘The Wooden Wonder’ was the most feared Allied plane in WWII by the Axis

The story of James Howard, the P-51 Mustang pilot who fought alone, for 30 minutes against Luftwaffe fighters to protect B-17 bombers egressing from skies over Germany

Here’s why, also according to Adolf Galland, the Spitfire Mk.XIV (and not the P-51D) was the best piston-engined fighter of WWII in Europe

How Japanese Zero-sen naval aviators turned the obsolete V formation into a formidable tactics in dealing with allied fighters during the early stages of the Pacific War

The story of legendary test pilot Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown and the Seafire ‘crabbed’ landing

Project Castor: the story of B-17 and B-24 bombers converted into flying bombs and aimed to destroy Luftwaffe’s V-1 sites

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