Share this story On the last day of August 1939, the crews of four Polish bomber escadrilles flew their aircraft out of Warsaw’s Okęcie airfield and scattered them across improvised fields near Dęblin. The machines they dispersed were PZL.37...
Share this story It was still dark at St Eval in Cornwall when Flying Officer Kenneth Campbell lifted his Bristol Beaufort off a waterlogged airfield on 6 April 1941. Under the fuselage hung a single torpedo. Ahead, across the Channel, lay Brest, the German...
Share this story Copenhagen, a Tuesday in November. Volodymyr Zelenskyy had spent the day in talks with Danish and Nordic leaders about air defence, and when journalists asked the question Ukrainians have been asking for more than a year, he finally gave them a month....
Share this story Lev Toropov finished the Second World War in a fighter that finally let him stop running. For much of the war, the Soviet pilot said, the Yaks his regiment flew had left the initiative with the Germans. Then, late in the war, his unit was re-equipped...
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...
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