planes | War History

Want to Experience Being a Crew Member on a B17? Great Footage Too

Ian Harvey

It’s hard to imagine what World War II bomber pilots experienced during their service. A pilot’s work was a risky business. They battled not only…

HBO Acquires Rights To “The Cold Blue” Film about Memphis Belle/8th Air Force

Directed By Erik Nelson, Film Features Restored Footage And Outtakes From William Wyler’s 1944 Documentary “The Memphis Belle: A Story Of A Flying Fortress” HBO Documentary…

Tejas MK1 Fighter Completes India’s First In-Air Refueling

Jeremy Lyons

The Indian defense capability took a big step forward with the successful air-to-air refueling of the Tejas MK1 fighter aircraft by an IL-78 MKI tanker.…

Crazy! Video – Pilot Lands Damaged A-6 on Carrier with Navigator Partially Ejected

David Baker

It’s hard to imagine the guts, skill, and talent it takes to smoothly take off or land an aircraft. But it takes a particular kind…

If the Cold War Went Hot, the Skies of WW3 Would Look Like This

Benjamin Roy

The Cold War wasn’t really a “war,” but an intense era of conflict between Russia and the USA that lasted nearly 50 years.  Yet, there…

Great Fighters of WWII – Yak-3 and Yak-9 in Photos

The middle of World War II, called the Great Patriotic War in the USSR, was for the Soviet engineer Alexander Yakovlev one of his most…

B-24 Liberator in Action – Video and Photos

The B-24 was among the most useful aircraft in the hands of the American armed forces. It featured in every theater of World War II…

The B-17 Flying Fortress in 26 Images

It is a fact that the American B-17 Flying Fortress remains among the most produced bombers in history, only trailing the B-24 Liberator and German-made…

Disabled B-17 was Escorted Home by German Airman – 2 Pilots Became Friends After the War

Ian Harvey

Warfare does not bring out mankind’s best attributes. It is a bloody, gory business not known for random acts of kindness. If anything, conflict is…

4 Nakajima Fighters of WWII

The Nakajima Airplane Company produced several of Japan’s most important fighter planes, contributing significantly to the country’s efforts in World War II. Ki-27 The aircraft…

Brave Or Crazy? James Ward Saved His Crew In One Daredevil Stunt

There is a fine line between acts of bravery and acts of madness, and there are no better examples of balancing on that line than…

Soviet Kamikazes – Known as “Ramming”, They Flew Their Planes Directly into the Enemy

Ruslan Budnik

During the Great Patriotic War (WWII to anyone outside the USSR), there were many cases where downed Soviet aircraft crashed into either German aircraft or…