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He painted his aeroplane red so the enemy would know exactly who was coming. By the time Manfred von Richthofen fell from the sky on 21 April 1918, he had destroyed 80 enemy aircraft — a record that stood as the highest confirmed tally of any fighter pilot in the...
History & Legends, Military Aviation
Quick FactsNationalityBritish 🇬🇧Aerial Victories38 (highest confirmed British ace of WWII)Aircraft FlownSpitfire Mk.II through Mk.XIVWarsWorld War IIBorn / Died9 Mar 1915 – 30 Jan 2001 (age 85)Unit616 Sqn RAF, No. 144 Wing RCAF Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IX in the Air...
Aviation World, History & Legends
On the morning of October 19, 1901, a small, open gondola suspended beneath a cigar-shaped hydrogen balloon rounded the Eiffel Tower at low altitude, straightened out over the Seine, and docked at the Saint-Cloud aerodrome in a time of 29 minutes and 30 seconds. The...
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Quick FactsNationalityAmerican 🇺🇸Aerial Victories34.5 (WWII) + 6.5 (Korea) = 41 totalAircraft FlownP-47 Thunderbolt, F-86 SabreWarsWorld War II (Europe), Korean WarBorn / Died28 Jan 1919 – 31 Jan 2002 (age 83)Unit56th Fighter Group (WWII), 51st Fighter Interceptor...
History & Legends, Military Aviation
At 70,000 feet, the North American XB-70 Valkyrie was the fastest, highest-flying bomber ever built. Two hundred and seventy feet of white-painted delta wing, six General Electric YJ93 engines producing 186,000 pounds of combined thrust, and a design speed of Mach...
History & Legends, Military Aviation
Twenty kills. Zero losses. In the spring of 1982, a handful of British Sea Harriers — subsonic, short-ranged, outnumbered — went to war over the South Atlantic against the Argentine Air Force. They were not supposed to win. They won anyway. The Falklands War air...
Aviation World, History & Legends
On July 26, 2016, a strange, slow, silent aircraft landed at Abu Dhabi International Airport, completing a journey that had begun 16 months earlier at the same airfield. Solar Impulse 2 had just circumnavigated the Earth — crossing Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North...
History & Legends, Military Aviation
Quick FactsNationalityAmerican 🇺🇸Aerial Victories40 (US all-time record)Aircraft FlownP-38 LightningWarsWorld War II (Pacific)Born / Died24 Sep 1920 – 6 Aug 1945 (age 24)Unit9th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group, 5th Air Force Lockheed P-38 Lightning –...
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