5+ hour, 36+ min ago   (560+ words) by Connor Kerr | Aug 4, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments 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 planes....

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1224+ words) One of the fastest piston fighters ever built — a twin-engine Navy fighter that arrived just too late for its war, and found its niche in the dark skies over Korea. The night-fighter role suited it. With a second crewman working…...

9+ hour, 13+ min ago   (1517+ words) Bell’s mid-engined follow-on to the Airacobra — a cannon-nosed fighter the USAAF didn’t want, sent by the thousand to the Soviet Union, and turned into the strangest gunnery target ever flown. The P-63 Kingcobra was Bell Aircraft’s second attempt at the…...

12+ hour, 49+ min ago   (837+ words) The world’s first supersonic trainer — a sleek, twin-engine jet that has taught American fighter and astronaut pilots to fly fast for more than sixty years, and still wears NASA’s white paint today. By the mid-1950s the fighters entering service — the…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (493+ words) A radical tailless, twin-jet carrier fighter a decade ahead of its shape — and one of the most dangerous aircraft the US Navy ever put to sea, which killed about 25 of its pilots and lost roughly a quarter of the fleet…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (457+ words) par Équipe MiGFlug | 28 mars 2026 | Aviation militaire, Nouvelles | 0 commentaire The patches are prominent and unmistakable. For the world's most secretive bomber — whose stealth coating is maintained with near-obsessive care — something conspicuous appearing on the wings before a live combat sortie is…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (43+ words) | |, | 0 Kommentare Aug 3, 2026 | Luftfahrtwelt, Geschichte & Legenden Aug 3, 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt Phone (US): +1 (888) 881 1893 Phone (UK): +44 (0)330 828 1261 Phone (CH): +41 (0)44 500 50 10...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (649+ words) A big, twin-boom, radar-carrying hunter designed to kill in the dark — and, some say, the aircraft that scored the last Allied air victory of the Second World War. It reached combat in 1944, serving in the Pacific, in Europe and in…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (512+ words) The one-off XP-38 was fast enough to tempt the Air Corps into a coast-to-coast speed attempt on 11 February 1939. It covered the distance in about seven hours — a record pace — but iced its carburettors on the approach and crashed short of…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (361+ words) by Tamika Johnson | Jul 29, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments Most fighter aces fight one enemy. Witold Urbanowicz fought two of history’s most feared air forces — the Luftwaffe over England and the Imperial Japanese over China — and beat them both. The…...