History & Legends, Military Aviation
On 18 November 1952, Lieutenant E. Royce Williams climbed into the cockpit of a Grumman F9F-5 Panther on the deck of USS Oriskany, off the coast of North Korea, and went looking for trouble. Forty-five minutes later he came back with his only engine on fire, no...
History & Legends, Military Aviation
On the morning of 6 January 1940, the temperature over southeastern Finland sat at minus thirty-two degrees Celsius. A flight of seven Soviet Ilyushin DB-3 bombers crossed the frontier on a routine raid against Finnish railway lines. They flew without fighter escort....
History & Legends, Military Aviation
On the morning of 1 May 1960, a young Soviet fighter pilot got an order so improbable he made the duty officer repeat it. He was to take off again. He was to climb as fast as he possibly could. He was not to wait for a missile lock. He was to ram an American spy...
History & Legends, Military Aviation
On the evening of December 18, 1972, 129 Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers lifted off from bases in Guam and Thailand and turned north toward Hanoi. They were about to fly into the most heavily defended airspace on Earth. Over the next eleven nights, the United...
Aviation World, History & Legends
At 7:25 on the evening of 6 May 1937, the largest flying machine ever built nosed toward its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey. The LZ 129 Hindenburg had crossed the Atlantic from Frankfurt in just over sixty hours, carrying 36 passengers who had...
Aviation World, History & Legends
On the morning of 4 May 1942, two fleets stumbled toward each other across a thousand miles of warm Pacific water. Neither would ever see the other. For the first time in the history of naval warfare, a major battle would be fought entirely by aircraft launched from...
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