Vintage WW II Aircraft Emergency Landing
Pilot Safe! AT-6 Texan in WW II Luftwaffe markings attempted an emergency landing on the 101 highway in California. The aircraft did not survive.
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Life Among the Nukes
By sheer coincidence, I am, at 86, one of relatively few ex-SAC members who can recall both how it was in the Strategic Air Command before General Curtis LeMay’s influence, and afterwards. It was a unique time in my life. In those days, the Strategic Air Command was a cocked fist carrying a knockout blow. […]
Classics: Curtiss B-2
Before the Gooney Bird, there was the Condor By Joe Gertler The T-32 design originally focused on The Condor as a twin-engine biplane, bomber, ambulance and troop transport. It was first flown in 1933. Curtiss Company blueprints and reports showed the Condor with its many machine gun ports in the nose, and on the top […]
North American Aircraft’s B-25 Mitchell Medium Bomber
Named in honor of Major General William “Billy” Mitchell, the pioneer of U.S. military aviation, the North American Aircraft B-25 Mitchell medium bomber was used by many Allied air forces. The B-25 served in every theater of World War II and after the war ended many remained in service, operating in several civilian occupations for […]
The Air Force has a New Trainer
Recently, the US Air Force awarded Boeing Defense a $9.2 billion contract for production of 351 T-X trainer jets, 46 simulators and associated ground equipment. The T-X trainers will replace the USAF’s 57-year-old fleet of Northrop T-38C Talons, and the contract is an indefinite-delivery and indefinite-quantity award, allowing the USAF to purchase up to 475 […]
Free Boeing F4B-4 Artwork
Wylam scale drawings are highly sought after — available for free download! — features most of the variations of the beautiful little Boeing F4B/P-12. Click here. These are not clean unused drawings. They are original production copies so are a little bit used and abused, but that’s the beauty of these impressive drawings available no […]
On This Day in Aviation History
1918 – Death of Cecil Vernon Gardner, British World War I flying ace, from wounds received in actions three days before. 1932 – The only RWD-7, a Polish high-wing, single-engine sports plane, is flown by its designer Jerzy Drzewiecki and Antoni Kocjan, to a record height of 19,755 feet. 1964 – Birth of Stephen Nathaniel […]
On This Day in Aviation History
1879 – On a trip in high winds from East St. Louis, Ill., over Lake Michigan, American balloonist John Wise disappears with his balloon “Pathfinder.” Both remain missing. 1894 – Birth of Antonio Amantea, Italian World War I flying ace. 1927 – The first solo flight from England to South Africa is completed when Lt. […]
On This Day in Aviation History
1892 – Birth of Émile Dewoitine, French aviation industrialist. 1917 – Death of Fritz Gustav August Kosmahl, German World War I flying ace, from wounds received in action. 1965 – First flight of the Ling-Temco-Vought LTV A-7 Corsair II (E model shown), an American carrier-based light attack aircraft. 1973 – Texas International Airlines Flight 655, […]
This Day in Aviation History
September 25, 2015. The first flight of the Boeing KC-46 Pegasus, the newest aerial refueling and strategic airlifter slated to enter service with the US Air Force in late 2018 or early 2019. In 2011, the Pegasus was announced as the winner of the Air Force KC-X competion over a Northrop Grumman/Airbus offering in a […]
