Oswald Boelcke: The Man Who Wrote the Rules of Aerial Combat
Share this story Quick FactsNationalityGerman 🇩🇪Aerial Victories40Aircraft FlownFokker Eindecker E.III, Albatros D.I/D.IIWarsWorld War IBorn / Died19 May 1891 – 28 Oct 1916 (age 25)UnitJagdstaffel 2 (founder) Albatros C.I ‘197-15’ (14212058469) — via...
The Strait That Air Power Can’t Open
Share this story Related: Dozens of Warthogs Gear Up for Iran Four weeks into the air campaign against Iran, the United States has struck more than 10,000 targets. Roughly 80 percent of Tehran’s integrated air defence network lies in ruins. Its navy has been...
We’re Adding the SR-71 Blackbird to Our Fleet
Share this story Today, we make aviation history. Not the ordinary kind — the kind where you need a pressure suit just to get dressed for your flight. MiGFlug is proud to announce that, effective immediately, we are adding the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird to our civilian...
Navy’s $10 Billion Trainer Race Begins
Share this story Quick Facts Program: Undergraduate Jet Training System (UJTS) Replacing: Boeing T-45C Goshawk (in service since 1991) Aircraft needed: 216 new jet trainers EMD cost cap: ~$1.8 billion Contract award: March 2027 Competitors: Boeing T-7B, Lockheed/KAI...
Adolphe Pégoud: The Acrobat Who Invented the Flying Ace
Share this story Quick Facts Nationality French 🇫🇷 Aerial Victories 15 (6 officially confirmed) Aircraft Flown Blériot XI, Morane-Saulnier N Wars World War I Born / Died 13 Jun 1889 – 31 Aug 1915 (age 26) Unit MS26, MS49 Adolphe Pégoud — via Wikimedia Commons Before...
America’s Secret Radar-Killer Heads to War
Share this story On the morning of March 31, two aircraft that barely anyone outside the electronic warfare community has heard of touched down at RAF Mildenhall in England. They had left Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona the day before, refuelled at McGuire in...
Korea vs. Italy: Southeast Asia’s Trainer War
Share this story Two T-50i Golden Eagles arrived at Iswahjudi Air Base in East Java in early March, flown in pieces inside a Boeing 747 freighter and reassembled on the ground. Fuselage, wings, vertical tail, engine — each component traveled separately across more...
Two-Kilo Missile Downs a Kamikaze Drone
Share this story Somewhere in northern Germany on March 30, a small drone the size of a dinner table locked onto a kamikaze UAV streaking toward its target. Without any human input, it classified the threat, selected a weapon, and fired. The missile — weighing less...
Five Companies Fight for Navy’s Next Trainer
Share this story The T-45 Goshawk has been teaching Navy and Marine Corps pilots how to fly jets since 1991. Now, after more than three decades of carrier touch-and-goes, hard landings, and thousands of freshly winged aviators, the little British-designed trainer is...
34 Greatest Flying Aces in History: Our New Daily Series Starts Tomorrow
Share this story What does it take to become a flying ace — the most feared, most celebrated kind of warrior the modern age has ever produced? Starting tomorrow, April 1st, MiGFlug is publishing a new daily series: 34 profiles of the greatest fighter aces in history,...
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