14 Photos of the Remnants of War Prove that Nature Always Prevails
Nature will always be stronger than man. There are two things that are certain in life: death and taxes. It is tempting to add one…
Tempelhof Airport: The Grandiose Former Symbol Of WW2 Germany Power That Now Houses Refugees
The Germans decided to build a new airport at Tempelhof – one that would showcase the vast might and grandiosity of the Third Reich. Tempelhof…
Remains of Heroic Spitfire Pilot who Crashed in Italian Village Finally Laid to Rest
The Romagna Air Finders is an organization which searches for aircraft that crashed during the Second World War. Any death in action is a tragedy.…
Flying Dogs: Five of the Worst British Warplanes Ever!
The planes also suffered nine accidents, which by itself is not substantial, but one must consider that only 49 of the planes were ever built.…
Britain’s Pearl Harbor: Japan Repeats Its Success of WWII
The attacks were successful and both ships were sunk, with 424 British seamen killed and 1,120 men left in the water for many hours after…
Blackbird SR-71: Master Of Stealth-The Fastest Airplane Ever Built
While no Blackbird was ever shot down by enemy action, that didn’t mean that nobody tried to achieve this. While the Lockheed Martin SR-71 Blackbird,…
From Biplane to Hurricane: The Slip-Wing experiment
The aircraft took off as a bi-plane, flew out over the sea with an RAF Hudson flying escort, jettisoned the upper wing, and returned to…
Classified: The New Boeing High-Tech Autonomous Fighter
The BATS plane is primarily intended, in its wingman role, to protect against electronic attacks With every passing year, items of technology once confined to…
The Flying French: The Nieuport Fighting Scouts of WWI
The Nieuport fighting scout series of planes were among the more successful and influential designs of the First World War. The Nieuport Company Nieuport was…
Hell From Above : The Messerschmitt Bf 110 Night Fighter
Its only drawback was that early night fighter versions were barely faster than the bombers they were trying to intercept. In the mid-1930s, there was…
Shoreham Air Crash: Pilot declared “Not Guilty” Over Deaths of 11 Victims
When the plane crashed and broke apart, Hill was flung into a ditch, suffering head injuries and fractures to his ribs and spine. Andy Hill,…
It Wiped Out Large Numbers of Its Own Pilots – The Unstable Sopwith Camel
This aircraft is credited with destroying more enemy planes than any other British aircraft of World War One, but it was also responsible for killing…