The Raid That Flew at Fifty Feet

The Raid That Flew at Fifty Feet

Before dawn on 1 August 1943, the desert around Benghazi coughed itself awake. One hundred and seventy-eight B-24 Liberators, engines scoured half to death by Libyan sand, staggered off the runways with 3,100 US gallons (11,700 litres) of fuel and full bomb bays. More...
Red Stars Over the Nevada Desert

Red Stars Over the Nevada Desert

Morning in the Nevada high desert, sometime in the early 1980s. Heat is already shimmering off a runway that appears on no aeronautical chart worth trusting. A fighter pilot fresh from Nellis Air Force Base rolls out of a turn at 15,000 feet and sees something his...