Datos rápidosNacionalidadEspañola 🇪🇸Victorias aéreas40 (mayor as, Guerra Civil Española)Aviones pilotadosFiat CR.32, Bf 109B/CGuerrasGuerra Civil Española (Nacionalista)Nacimiento/Fallecimiento25 de abril de 1904 – 4 de abril de 1939 (34 años)UnidadGrupo 2-G-3 Chirri (2675595340) — vía Wikimedia Commons La mayoría de...
Share this story Two days before the most important flight in the history of aviation, Captain Chuck Yeager went horseback riding with his wife, Glennis, near their home at Muroc Army Air Field in the California desert. The horse threw him. He hit the ground hard and...
Share this story No supersonic fighter in history has been built in greater numbers. No jet has served in more air forces, fought in more wars, or lasted longer in frontline service. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 — NATO codename Fishbed — first flew in 1955, entered...
Share this story The man who will shape the next generation of Air Force officers has 2,500 flight hours, 300 of them in combat, and has flown two of America’s most formidable fighters: the F-15C Eagle and the F-22 Raptor. Col. Brandon J. Tellez, a 2001 Air Force...
Share this story Thirty-nine aircraft. More than 13,000 sorties. Five weeks of sustained air combat over and around Iran. The War Zone has published a comprehensive, open-source tracking of every US aircraft confirmed lost or damaged during Operation Epic Fury — and...
Datos brevesNacionalidadAustro-Húngaro 🇦🇹Victorias aéreas32 (el as más alto de kuk Luftfahrtruppen)Aeronave voladaAlbatros D.III, Hansa-BrandenburgGuerrasPrimera Guerra MundialNacido/fallecido5 de febrero de 1895 - 1 de agosto de 1981 (86 años)UnidadFlik 6, Flik 55J Julius Arigi - a través de Wikimedia Commons Cada guerra...
Share this story On October 3, 1967, test pilot William J. “Pete” Knight climbed into a black, dart-shaped aircraft bolted to the wing of a B-52 bomber. At 45,000 feet over Mud Lake, Nevada, the B-52 released him. Knight lit the rocket engine. In the next 140.7...
Share this story On September 6, 1976, a Soviet MiG-25 Foxbat interceptor appeared on Japanese radar screens without warning. It was flying fast, low, and heading straight for Hakodate Airport on the northern island of Hokkaido. The pilot had not filed a flight plan....
Share this story The next generation of Portuguese military pilots will learn to fly in an aircraft that weighs less than a family car. On April 9, 2026, Tecnam and Spanish aviation services provider World Aviation announced that the Portuguese Air Force has selected...
Share this story On April 3, 2026, an F-15E Strike Eagle with the callsign Dude 44 was hit by a shoulder-fired missile over Iran’s Zagros Mountains. Both crew members ejected. The pilot was recovered within hours. The weapons systems officer — a colonel — was not. He...
Share this story On April 8, 2026, two French Air and Space Force Rafale B fighters roared off the runway at Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania, afterburners slicing through the cold Baltic morning. This was not a training exercise. A NATO Alpha Scramble — the real thing...
Share this story In the pre-dawn darkness of April 1, 2026, a Royal Bahraini Air Force F-16 Block 70 lifted off from Sheikh Isa Air Base and turned toward an incoming threat that ground-based air defenses had already failed to stop. Two Iranian drones were inbound....
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