Ordained minister Dean Hess dealt death from the sky as a fighter-bomber pilot, but […]
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An RAF Love Story
A love affair between an RAF pilot and a WAAF that ended tragically in 1942 came full circle with the discovery of his Spitfire nearly 70 years later.
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Mitsubishi G4M: Why Betty Bombed
Mitsubishi’s G4M bomber went by many names, but perhaps the most appropriate would have been “flaming coffin.”
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North American T-6: A Texan by Any Other Name
The ubiquitous North American T-6 Texan flew in a dozen wars and earned a half-dozen nicknames.
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Macchi-Castoldi M.C.72: Too Hot to Handle
The Macchi-Castoldi M.C.72 wrote a record-breaking epilogue to the Schneider Trophy races. Jacques Schneider, […]
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X-43 Scramjet Success: Breaking the Mach 10 Barrier
The speed frontier has been broken, thanks to an experimental NASA jet.
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Albert Berry’s Leap of Fate
March 1, 1912, Jefferson Barracks, MO.—Captain Albert Berry makes the first successful parachute jump […]
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We Guide to Strike
Gil Cohen’s ASAA “Award of Distinction” tribute to British Pathfinders. Gil Cohen’s painting We […]
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The First MiGs: Learning By Trial and Error
The design bureau’s early years were marked by as many failures as successes, but the company would go on to produce some of history’s greatest fighter aircraft.
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Britain’s ‘Bloody Paralyzer’
The first really large bombers to be produced in substantial numbers and employed in massed formations in a coordinated strategic offensive, the Handley Page O/100 and O/400 set the basic layout for both British and American bomber design.