The crew provided Close Air Support and precision fire power to the U.S. land forces on the ground in Panama. The attack also involved a series of precision strikes by F-117A Nighthawks. Crews of AC-130H Spectre gunships that participated in the...
Conceived as revolutionary and advanced naval fighter, its design fueled by the rapid advancement in aviation technology at the time, the Vought XF5U project promised a highly efficient and tough aircraft with amazing capabilities and flying characteristics. The V-173 Pancake Prototype...
Kept under a veil of civilian airlines, glider clubs, and civil aviation clubs, the Luftwaffe emerged as a military force while the rest of Europe slept, and the He 51 was the backbone fighter of the newly established German Air Force....
SA-2 (S-75 Dvina) surface-to-air missile launch during 2007 exercises in Romania. (Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons) The Infamous U-2 was not the only aircraft shot out of the Soviet skies that day in May 1960, there was a second parachute floating to...
Gabriele D’Annunzio, in the front seat, and pilot Captain Natale Palli, in the S.V.A. two-seater biplane, ready to take off for the flight over Vienna on 9 August 1918. (Image credit: Army War College, Historical Section. US D.o.D.) On this day,...
Douglas C-124A Globemaster II 49-244 in January 1951. (Image credit: via Don Wagner) A Desperate Plea for Help. A Terrifying Survival Ordeal. A Bizarre Disappearance, and the Strangest Cold War Mystery You’ve Never Heard Of. It started out as a seemingly...
Screenshots from the video showing the B-52 during the fictional nuclear strike and a B-57 bomber navigating near a nuclear explosion. A 1960 Strategic Air Command training video familiarized B-52 crews with the devastating effects of nuclear weapons and how to...
