by Tamika Johnson | Nov 6, 2026 | Storia e leggende | 0 comments The weapon was too big for any normal bomb bay. The Tu-95V was a Bear modified with an enlarged, strengthened bomb bay. The aircraft was painted in white anti-flash paint, down to…
by Joseph Duncan | Nov 2, 2026 | Histoire et légendes | 0 comments On 18 July 1965, Commander Jeremiah Denton of attack squadron VA-75 was leading a strike over North Vietnam in a Grumman A-6A Intruder when his aircraft was hit near Thanh Hoa. He and his…
by Tamika Johnson | Sep 28, 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 comments The man who had orbited the Earth in 108 minutes, and survived a re-entry nobody had tried before, died at 34 in one of the most common jet trainers in the Soviet…
by Fortuné Leroy | Jul 7, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments The Valiant is the least glamorous of Britain’s three V-bombers. It is also the one that did the most, first. It worked exactly as intended. The Valiant flew in 1951 and entered…
by Joseph Duncan | Oct 17, 2026 | Histoire et légendes | 0 comments A post on Instagram tells his story well. Most of it checks out; a few details are worth sharpening. Kearby had volunteered to lead a four-ship reconnaissance flight over the Japanese bases…
by MiGFlug Team | Apr 2, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments On September 6, 1976, Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko made a choice that would reshape Western understanding of Soviet aviation. He pointed the nose of his MiG-25 Foxbat toward Japan and flew. What the…
by Max Grünwald | Oct 14, 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 comments Imagine running an air force whose newest bomber is faster than every fighter you own. That was the problem facing the Royal Air Force at the start of the 1930s, and…
by Joseph Duncan | Oct 14, 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 comments At around three o'clock on the afternoon of 26 January 1942, a formation of open-cockpit biplanes flew north up the coast of Malaya towards a Japanese landing at Endau. They were Vickers…
by Max Grünwald | Oct 13, 2026 | Aviazione militare | 0 comments Ask a room of warbird enthusiasts which was the best piston-engined fighter of the Second World War in Europe and you will start an argument that has been running for 80 years. Two names…
by Connor Kerr | Oct 13, 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt | 0 comments At dawn on Sunday, 14 October 1962, a single grey reconnaissance jet crossed the Yucatán Channel at 72,500 feet and turned north towards western Cuba. Its pilot was Major Richard S. Heyser of the…
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