Blasted 3 German Balloons and 2 Fighters, Crash Landed, Got Out With Automatic Pistol Then Shot as Many Germans Before Dying
In only nine days of flying in World War I combat, just ten missions and thirty hours of time in a Spad XIII aircraft, Lieutenant…
The Wirraway Story – Australia’s First Warplane
As war loomed in Europe with the growing menace of Nazi Germany there was also an awareness of a Nationalist Japan intent on expanding its…
One of those ‘So crazy it can’t be true’ stories about the quirks of war, by World of Tanks
Stinky and the Emergency Part 1 Wouldn’t it have been a terrible thing if, in the middle of WW2, the people responsible for training and…
Seriously! The Kalinin K-7 bomber actually took to the air!!!!
The Kalinin K-7 was a heavy experimental aircraft designed and tested in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. It was of unusual configuration with…
Plane Crash from Over 70 Years Ago Remembered
The plane crash which killed an American pilot in 1943 was witnessed by the two young offspring of the Simonelli family in Italy. Caroline and…
Mystery of the underwater time capsule is solved: Plane is identified as a JU-52 carrier
A plane used by the Luftwaffe forces during the Second World War has been located underwater in remarkable condition. Located in the Black Sea, the…
German community honors US bomber crew shot down in WWII
Almost seventy years ago, a WWII bomber went down on the outskirts of Vaterstetten in Germany. A B-24 Liberator, the aircraft was commonly referred to…
B-29 ‘Danny-Mite’ Flight Engineer Shares Experience
Vic Morris, a flight engineer from the B-29 known as the Danny-Mite, has felt guilty for the bulk of his life for surviving the…
P-51 Mustang Fighter Plane Marks Entrance to Aviation Museum
As a crane swung a P-51 Mustang fighter plane over the pole which will be its home, the crowd seemingly held its breath. Six…
Museum of Flight Welcomes WWII Wildcat
Tom Cathcart, the Director of Aircraft Collections and Restoration for the Museum of Flight, helped to remove a F2G-1 Super Corsair from the museum in…
B-17 Flying Fortress Successfully Completed Milestone Flight in 1938
The B-17 Flying Fortress was a few years away from becoming the iconic warplane of the American air force in WWII, when six planes took…
Ohio museum volunteers rebuilding a B-17
Feb. 20, 2014: Dave Shiffer displays a throttle quadrant that will be placed in the B-17 World War II-era bomber being built from salvaged and…