Share this story It is one of the Second World War’s most durable legends: that in January 1944 a giant six-engined German bomber took off from occupied France, crossed the Atlantic, flew to within sight of Manhattan, photographed the skyline, and slipped home...
Share this story By 1944, Germany’s bomber fleets were spent, and the V-1 flying bomb — the “buzz bomb” — was terrorising London with one glaring flaw: it could miss a target the size of Greater London entirely. Someone proposed a brutally simple fix...
Share this story In 1939 the U.S. Army Air Corps put out a request for something deliberately radical — a fighter that broke the rules of how a fighter should be built. Vultee’s answer was the XP-54: a twin-boom machine with an inverted gull wing, the engine and...
Share this story In 1935 the Soviet Union built the largest aircraft on Earth — an eight-engined giant with a wingspan to rival a modern Boeing 747, fitted out not with weapons but with a printing press, a photographic lab, a telephone exchange, a cinema, and a radio...
Share this story He was 31 years old — ancient by fighter-pilot standards — which is how a hard-drinking, twice-divorced Marine named Gregory Boyington got the nickname “Pappy.” He was also, by 1943, something close to washed up: a former Flying Tiger with...
Share this story He was born in Brazil, to a father from Alsace and a mother from Lorraine, and learned to fly at a club in Rio. He would end the war a wing commander in the Royal Air Force at the age of twenty-four, and General de Gaulle would call him...
Share this story It was a little before nine on the night of 18 April 1995, and Captain Brian Udell was flying his F-15E Strike Eagle out over the black Atlantic off North Carolina. Beside him sat his weapons systems officer, Captain Dennis White. It was routine...
Share this story At 11:20 on the morning of 25 January 1966, a Lockheed test pilot named Bill Weaver lifted an SR-71 Blackbird off the runway at Edwards Air Force Base. Beside him, in the reconnaissance systems officer’s seat, sat Jim Zwayer. A few hours later,...
Share this story A modest airbase in southeastern Bulgaria has become the newest point of friction between Tehran and the West — and the cause is not a bomber or a stealth fighter, but a fleet of ageing flying petrol stations.In late July 2026, Bulgaria’s...
Comparte esta historia Hace un mes, la Fuerza Aérea de EE. UU. autorizó la producción de sus dos primeros "drones de combate". Esta semana, las fábricas comenzaron a construirlos, y a uno de ellos le quitaron una letra de su nombre. El 27 de julio de 2026, el primer Fury fabricado en Ohio...
Comparte esta historia. El 29 de julio de 2026, la Fuerza Aérea Ucraniana informó de la pérdida de un F-16 durante una misión de combate para interceptar objetivos aéreos rusos. El piloto se eyectó y sobrevivió. Según la Fuerza Aérea, los controladores perdieron contacto con la aeronave mientras estaba en combate...
Comparte esta historia Alrededor de las 2:30 de la tarde del 30 de julio de 2026, los sensores ubicados a lo largo de la frontera de Corea del Sur con el Norte detectaron algo que no pudieron identificar: una aeronave no tripulada, cerca de un puesto de avanzada en la línea del frente, que no emitía ninguna señal amistosa. En el más...
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