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

Aviation History / Military Aviation / Warbirds

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

Dario Leone

YB-29 Bomber Escorter

Aviation History / Military Aviation / Warbirds

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

Dario Leone

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

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

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

Dario Leone

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

Aviation History / Military Aviation / Warbirds

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

Dario Leone

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

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

Dario Leone

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

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

Dario Leone

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

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

Dario Leone

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

Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / Warbirds

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

Dario Leone

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

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

Dario Leone

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

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

Dario Leone

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

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

Dario Leone

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

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

Dario Leone

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

Aviation History / Military Aviation / Warbirds

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

Dario Leone

B-17 B-24

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

Dario Leone

Seafire Sea Fury Corsair

Aviation History / Military Aviation / Warbirds

Flying the Seafire: a comparison with the Vought F4U Corsair and Hawker Sea Fury

Dario Leone

The Death of a Flying Tiger Ace: the Final Flight of Bill Reed, China’s Shining Mark

Aviation History / Military Aviation / Warbirds

The Death of a Flying Tiger Ace: the Final Flight of Bill Reed, China’s Shining Mark

Dario Leone

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