Fairchild C-82 Packet and C-119 Flying Boxcar by Alwyn T. Lloyd, Midland Publishing, Hersham, […]
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Was USS Los Angeles ‘the most successful airship ever flown’?
Rigid airships represent the transition from single pilot hot air balloons to massive gas-filled […]
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Blohm und Voss Bv-141: Nazi Germany’s Weird, Lopsided Warplane
This bizarre-looking, asymmetrical scouting plane looked like it couldn’t fly. But was this Luftwaffe experiment really a failure?
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Early Bird continues to challenge the Wright’s claim of the first powered flight
For more than a century, historians have generally agreed that Wilbur and Orville Wright […]
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Detailing John Boyd’s F-100 ‘Hun’
When it was introduced into the arsenal of the U.S. Air Force in the […]
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The Air Force Maverick Who Led the “Fighter Mafia”
Colonel John Boyd was a true original—but he paid a stiff price.
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Knight Flier
Airmail pilot Jack Knight’s heroic flight in a day-and-night ‘grand relay’ brought him instant […]
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From Anzio’s Beaches to the Burma Jungle
After 53 missions on two continents, a B-25 pilot endured months of maltreatment in […]
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1st Pursuit Group Crews tests Old Man Winter in 1930
Above an ice-covered lake in eastern Washington state on January 19, 1930, a group […]
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Lake Murray’s ‘Fallen Warrior’ finds a home at the Southern Museum of Flight
On Sunday morning, April 4, 1943, the pilots at Columbia Army Air Base, South […]