1+ week, 5+ day ago   (372+ words) di Connor Kerr | Sep 2, 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 commenti The raid failed. The aircraft did not. And the story of both is the story of a warplane so good that Allied crews came to regard it as the hardest…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (354+ words) von Max Grünwald | Sep 2, 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt | 0 Kommentare The idea of a swept-wing Panther was old — the original 1946 contract even asked for design data on one — but Grumman had resisted, wary of the tricky low-speed handling that swept wings…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (592+ words) di Connor Kerr | 4 agosto 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 commenti Eric “Winkle” Brown flew more different types of aircraft than any human being who has ever lived — nearly five hundred of them, from Spitfires to jets to captured German rocket…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (444+ words) par Connor Kerr | Sep 1, 2026 | Monde de l'aviation, Aviation militaire | 0 commentaire He never became a general, never commanded a wing, and spent much of his career infuriating his superiors. Yet John Boyd may have shaped modern air combat more than any…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1192+ words) par Connor Kerr | Sep 1, 2026 | Monde de l'aviation | 0 commentaire At Nellis Air Force Base in the late 1950s, an instructor kept a standing bet with anyone who wanted it. Take up a position on his tail, the classic winning position in air…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1070+ words) von Connor Kerr | Sep 1, 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt | 0 Kommentare There is an aeroplane in the Cold War Gallery at Dayton that the museum has deliberately not restored. Its wings are off. Its nose is crushed. The paint is scorched. The…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1074+ words) par Connor Kerr | Sep 1, 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 commentaire There is an aeroplane in the Cold War Gallery at Dayton that the museum has deliberately not restored. Its wings are off. Its nose is crushed. The paint is scorched....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (355+ words) por Connor Kerr | 30 de julio de 2026 | Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar | 0 comentarios It also happens to be one of the few fighters that once hid in plain sight behind a wooden propeller it did not need. Quick Facts: Bell P…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (554+ words) by Connor Kerr | Aug 31, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments On 3 July 1955, Western military attachés stood at the Soviet Aviation Day display at Tushino, near Moscow, and watched something that frightened them: wave after wave of big four-jet bombers thundering overhead....

2+ week, 15+ hour ago   (511+ words) di Connor Kerr | 28 agosto 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 commenti It looked like nothing else in the sky: a stubby twin-engine fighter whose nose stopped dead at the wing, as if someone had sawn the front off a normal aeroplane....