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During Battle of Britain it’s not true that ‘Hurricanes went for bombers and Spitfires for fighters.’ RAF Controller during BoB tells why.
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (279+ words) ‘The Spitfire has been moribund as a Home Defence fighter for two years and died when the Focke-Wulf 190 made an appearance.’ Whatever the truth of the matter, it is certainly the case that many would agree with the opinion that,…...
Kawanishi H8K Emily: Best Flying Boat of WWII
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…...
Hawker Tempest: The Best RAF Fighter Nobody Remembers
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (352+ words) por Connor Kerr | 2 de agosto de 2026 | Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar | 0 comentarios Ask which fighter the RAF prized most in the last year of the Second World War and most people will say the Spitfire. They would be wrong. The…...
Fa 223 Drache: WWII Helicopter Crosses the Channel
2+ week, 22+ hour ago (324+ words) di Max Grünwald | 30 agosto 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 commenti When people picture the first practical helicopters, they usually think of Igor Sikorsky and wartime America. But years before Sikorsky’s machines matured, Nazi Germany built a genuinely usable transport helicopter…...
Avro Shackleton AEW.2: The Piston Radar Plane
3+ week, 5+ day ago (620+ words) di Connor Kerr | 19 agosto 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 commenti In the summer of 1991, the Royal Air Force flew supersonic Tornados, was preparing for the Eurofighter, and had just watched stealth aircraft debut over Iraq. And the aircraft it relied…...
The Focke-Wulf Fw 61: First Helicopter
2+ week, 22+ hour ago (297+ words) par Max Grünwald | 16 août 2026 | Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 commentaire That woman was Hanna Reitsch, and the machine was the Focke-Wulf Fw 61. What the crowd was watching was not a stunt in the ordinary sense. It was…...
Hawker Hunter: Britain’s Most Beautiful Jet Fighter
3+ week, 5+ hour ago (537+ words) di Connor Kerr | 30 luglio 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 commenti Some aeroplanes are admired. A rare few are loved. IL Cacciatore di Hawker belongs firmly to the second category, and it has done so since the day it first slipped…...
Focke-Wulf 190 Rises in Turkish Air Force Markings | Afterburner - MiGFlug's Magazine
2+ week, 6+ day ago (685+ words) par Équipe MiGFlug | 3 avril 2026 | Histoire et légendes | 0 commentaire Somewhere in Türkiye, a radial engine that hasn't powered a combat aircraft in 80 years is turning again. The Shvetsov ASh-82 coughs, catches, and settles into a deep, thundering idle. Attached to it…...
The Man Inside the Missile: Piercarlo Ciacchi and the F-104 Starfighter
3+ week, 7+ hour ago (1480+ words) Few fighter pilots have followed a path as remarkable as Piercarlo Ciacchi's. After flying the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter and F-16 in the Italian Air Force, earning a coveted place with Italy's famed Frecce Tricolori aerobatic team, and later returning to the cockpit…...
Albatros D.III
3+ week, 13+ hour ago (1158+ words) Robert Thelen’s streamlined plywood fighter — the premier German scout of early 1917, twin-Spandau armed and flown by von Richthofen and the elite Jagdstaffeln. Albatros’ chief designer Robert Thelen built the D.I and D.II in mid-1916 around two ideas: a streamlined…...