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Yorkshire Air Museum to Host Allied Air Forces Memorial Day on September 6
1+ week, 4+ day ago (445+ words) Vintage Aviation News The...Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, York, England, will host its annual Allied Air Forces Memorial Day on...Representing the Chief of the Air Staff will be Group Captain John “Geordie” Lawson, Officer Commanding...During the ceremony, Lawson…...
Amiot 143: France's Ungainly 1930s Night Bomber
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1777+ words) The unmistakable “flying greenhouse” of the Armée de l’Air — a slab-sided, high-winged French night bomber...In 1928 the French air ministry issued a specification under the designation BCR — Bombardement, Combat...multi-role concept was quietly set aside, and the aircraft was…...
P-61 Black Widow: America's First Night Fighter
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (405+ words) something genuinely new: the first American aircraft designed from a blank sheet of paper to hunt at night...fighter had, in effect, closed out the air war without touching its triggers....The jet age arrived almost immediately, and the big…...
F3D Skyknight: First Jet Night Kill Over Korea
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (550+ words) And yet the Douglas F3D Skyknight did something no glamorous day-fighter could claim: on a dark night...— and by the end of the war it had killed more enemy aircraft after dark than any other jet night fighter...fighter of the…...
Heinkel He 219 Uhu: The Night Fighter Germany Refused
1+ week, 6+ day ago (830+ words) The Uhu — Eagle Owl — was arguably the best purpose-built night fighter of the war, and Germany built...Taper: Two-seat night fighter, Heinkel He 219 “Uhu” (Eagle Owl) Premier vol: 6 November 1942 (the Smithsonian...The He 219's seats were compressed-air powered rather…...
Nuremberg Raid 1944: Bomber Command's Worst Night
1+ week, 5+ day ago (362+ words) In a single night, in a few hours over Germany, more than 500 young airmen were killed — the worst night...The airmen climbed into a crystal-clear night lit by a bright moon....Worse, the cold air turned every engine's exhaust into…...
The Cactus Air Force at Guadalcanal, 1942
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (475+ words) They called themselves the Cactus Air Force — and for a few desperate months in 1942, they were all that...That ragtag collection — soon joined by Navy and Army Air Forces aircraft — became the Cactus Air Force...Japanese bombers came almost daily,…...
The Night the RAF Bombed Hitler's Rocket Base | Afterburner - MiGFlug's Magazine
3+ week, 1+ day ago (365+ words) by Connor Kerr | Aug 22, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments On the night of Aug..., the target was described as a site developing radar that “promises to improve greatly the German night...air defence organisation.”...It was also the night the…...
Rochester Air Force Veteran To Turn 90
4+ day, 21+ min ago (239+ words) ROCHESTER – A Rochester Air Force veteran is marking his 90th birthday this week. Francis E....While in the service, Hendrickson earned the Air Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross and Silver Star...He retired from the Air Force in 1980 as a lieutenant colonel.......
Focke-Wulf 190 Rises in Turkish Air Force Markings | Afterburner - MiGFlug's Magazine
2+ week, 5+ day ago (685+ words) fighter aircraft of the Second World War — and it is weeks away from flying for the first time in Turkish Air...The restoration is the work of the MSÖ Air & Space Museum, founded by Turkish aviation enthusiast Ali...By late…...