Share this story On March 13, 2026, a sound not heard since September 1945 echoed across Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport in Queensland. A Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp radial engine — 14 cylinders, 1,200 horsepower — roared to life, and a stubby, pugnacious little fighter...
Share this story SAS at 80: From Polar Pioneer to Unlikely Survivor QUICK FACTS Founded: August 1, 1946 | Founders: Denmark, Norway, Sweden (Tripartite) | First Intercontinental: Stockholm-New York, Sept 1946 | Polar Pioneering: 1954 (first regular transpolar routes)...
Share this story This week at Warbirds Over Wanaka—New Zealand’s premier warbird airshow—the most historically significant Russian fighter aircraft ever to fly in the Southern Hemisphere will take to the sky. The world’s only airworthy Yakovlev Yak-7B is...
Share this story Quick Facts Who: Col. Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson (1922–2024) Record: 16¼ aerial victories — triple ace, 357th Fighter Group Aircraft: P-51 Mustang “Old Crow” Missions: 116 combat missions, never hit by enemy fire Ceremony:...
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...
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,...
Share this story The engine dies. The plywood biplane goes silent, gliding through the black Ukrainian sky at 1,200 metres. Below, German searchlights sweep the darkness. Flak crews wait, listening. They hear nothing — just a faint whisper of wind through wire struts....
Share this story On May 28, 1987, an 18-year-old West German with 50 hours of flying experience took off from Helsinki in a rented Cessna 172. He told air traffic control he was heading for Stockholm. He turned east instead — straight into the most heavily defended...
Share this story Climb into a MiG-21 and the first thing you notice is not the cramped canopy or the wall of round dials. It is the colour. The instrument panel, the side consoles and the cockpit walls are painted a vivid turquoise, somewhere between a swimming pool...
Share this story Most aircraft are designed to fly straight and level by default. Take your hands off the controls and they glide on, stable, content, reassuring. The F-16 Fighting Falcon is not like most aircraft. Take your hands off the controls in an F-16 and it...
Share this story January 2, 1967. Colonel Robin Olds — World War II ace, Vietnam War wing commander, and possibly the most dangerous man ever to strap into a fighter jet — had a problem. North Vietnam’s MiG-21s were shooting down American aircraft with near...
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