History & Legends, Military Aviation
The first time you hear it, you feel it before you understand it — a deep, rising howl that climbs the back of your neck and rattles your chest as a vast triangular shadow sweeps overhead. For generations of British airshow-goers, that sound meant one thing: the...
Aviation World, History & Legends, Military Aviation
It may be the most beautiful aircraft the United States Navy ever sent to sea: long, impossibly sleek, twin-finned and built to sprint at twice the speed of sound off a carrier deck. The North American A-5 Vigilante looked like it had arrived from a decade in the...
History & Legends, Military Aviation
In the first months of the Pacific War, the Mitsubishi Zero was a nightmare. It could out-climb, out-turn and out-accelerate the stubby Grumman Wildcats the U.S. Navy sent against it, and American pilots who tried to fight it on its own terms — twisting, turning,...
History & Legends, Military Aviation
To drop bombs on Tripoli for twelve minutes, the U.S. Air Force flew for thirteen hours. Not because the target was far in a straight line — it was a routine Mediterranean hop from bases in England — but because almost every ally in between refused to let the aircraft...
History & Legends, Military Aviation
At a quarter to eight on the morning of 5 June 1967, Egyptian air-defence officers were changing shifts, the dawn patrol had landed, and hundreds of Soviet-built fighters sat parked in neat rows across eighteen airfields. Within roughly three hours, most of them were...
Aviation World, History & Legends
Just before midnight on 1 July 2002, two aircraft converged over the Bodensee at 36,000 feet. One was a DHL Boeing 757 freighter climbing out of Bergamo with two pilots aboard. The other was a Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 carrying 69 people from Moscow toward a...
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