Share this story Lieutenant Commander Wade McClusky should have turned back. His two squadrons of dive bombers from USS Enterprise had been searching for the Japanese carriers without finding them, and they were burning fuel they would need to get home. Then, far...
Share this story On 4 May 2026, in a hall at the Finnish Air Force Museum at Tikkakoski, a small team rented an electric forklift, slid a wooden wing under a fuselage and eased four bolts into place. By late morning the job was done, and that afternoon the aircraft...
Share this story On 6 January 1940, a formation of Soviet Ilyushin DB-3 bombers flew in across the Gulf of Finland. Near Utti, seven of them met one Finnish lieutenant in a Dutch fighter with fixed landing gear and four rifle-calibre machine guns. Jorma Sarvanto shot...
Share this story When Kurt Tank arrived in Bangalore in August 1956, the man who had designed the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 found a design office of 54 people. Three of them were senior design engineers, and two of those were already busy with a jet trainer. There was no...
Share this story Japan is about to hand the Philippines something it has never given any partner under its newest aid programme: a complete, finished defence system. On Monday 9 November, the Japanese Foreign Ministry announced that Tokyo will provide a coastal radar...
Share this story At about seven o’clock on the evening of Sunday 8 November, a white three-engined jet with a Russian flag on its tail touched down at Ben Gurion Airport. It was not an airliner on a scheduled run. According to flight-tracking data reported by...
Share this story On Friday 13 August 1948, a C-54 Skymaster carrying the new boss of the Berlin Airlift circled blind above Tempelhof. The clouds had dropped to the rooftops, a cloudburst had swallowed the runway, one transport had crashed and burned at the end of it,...
Share this story “Good morning, welcome aboard.” You have heard it a hundred times, probably while juggling a phone, a boarding pass and a coffee. You smile back, or you do not, and you shuffle on towards row 23.In those two seconds, the person at the door...
Share this story Just after noon on Friday 5 April 1968, staff at Flight magazine’s London offices glimpsed something that should not have been there: an RAF jet fighter, wing tanks and all, in a descending turn low over the Thames. Seconds later it went through...
Share this story On the morning of 20 December 1950, sixteen four-engined transports sat on the frozen ramp at Kimpo, outside Seoul, with their crews waiting. Their cargo was two hours late. When it finally arrived, in a convoy of trucks a chaplain had more or less...
Share this story The men running across the grass at Mines Field, Los Angeles, were shouting something the two women in the blue biplane could not quite believe. After nearly 15 hours in the air from New York, Louise Thaden and Blanche Noyes were sure they had broken...
Share this story The runway sits in a bowl of bare brown mountains, about 25 km from the Line of Actual Control with China. Dust boils up behind four turbofans as a grey IL-76MD plants its main gear on the concrete. The air outside is thin enough that every kilogram...
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