Zero-sen pilots were particularly vexed by the four-engined Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber. In fact the B-17 would prove hard… Read More
The Horten Ho 229 was built and flown on several occasions but development was held back by numerous factors and… Read More
The Tu-16 was then hit by one of two missiles fired by two Mirages and attempted to escape in an… Read More
Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry falsely attributed a new verb, Coventriert (to ‘Coventrate’), to the British public. The Blitz - the German… Read More
The idea was simple: to destroy the runway at Port Stanley, and prevent Argentinian fast jets using it against the… Read More
The bomber conducted a flyover of the city of Abilene before landing. Rumors spread widely that the noise from the… Read More
On May 13, 1943 the B-17F “Hell’s Angels” returned successfully from its 25th mission. A week later, on May 19,… Read More
Thanks to the massive B-36, Convair easily transported the XB-58 prototype by air from Ft. Worth TX to Wright-Patterson Air… Read More
Avro Vulcan XM655 suffered a runway excursion at Wellesbourne-Mountford airfield, UK, on Sep. 16, 2022 during the trial run for… Read More
In June and July of 1944, an American bomber crew dubbed their B-17 Flying Fortress "Princess Elizabeth", to honor King… Read More
B-17G Flying Fortress “Wee Willie” had completed 127 missions and was destroyed on its 128th. The main picture in this… Read More
On Oct. 30, 1935, at Wright Airfield in Ohio, the Model 299 (as B-17 prototype was known) lifted off, climbed… Read More
The mission was codenamed Operation Glass Knob. A colonel had come up with the idea of bombing the rocky outcrop… Read More
The unusually ‘large’ air strike run by Tupolev Tu-22M-3 Backfires of the VKS via the airspace of Belarus on north-western… Read More
What did the Luftwaffe’s leadership think of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber? The B-17 Flying Fortress is one of the… Read More
Brigadier General Fred Castle was flying as copilot with the 487th Bomb Group and 1Lt. Robert W. Harriman and his… Read More
Because early jet engines could not provide enough power the lack of adequate thrust at takeoff was a constant problem… Read More
