Why Was The UK's Fairey Battle Called A "Flying Coffin"?
The Fairey Battle, a British-built single-engine light bomber aircraft, was conceived by the Fairey Aircraft Company and ...
Groundbreaking Engines That Changed The Face Of Warfare
Technological advancements made the development of these engines possible -- and forever changed the way outside observers ...
The Aviationist29d
The Initial Aerial Victories of the Axis and Allies in World War II
Gnys, also flying a PZL P.11c ... When an escorting Messerschmitt Bf 109 joined the battle, Pamula, out of ammo, rammed the German fighter with his P.11 and safely parachuted.
Why Was The USAAF P-39 Airacobra Not Sent To Europe During WW2?
The Bell P-39 Airacobra was a fighter primarily produced by US-based aerospace manufacturer Bell Aircraft for the United ...
The National Interest12d
Paddy Hemingway, Last Surviving Battle of Britain Pilot, Dies at 105
John Angel Chu of the famed Flying Tigers, World War II pilots (and ... of Britain but is credited with damaging a Messerschmitt Bf 109 (aka, Me 109) on August 31, 1940. Paddy and his wife ...
FLYING Magazine on MSN14d
Flying Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Between them, Barry and Chuck had already put 14 hours on the airplane, bringing its total flight hours to 22, when, on a clear, sunny April day, Barry made a short pattern flight, then landed and ...
CNET22d
This Flying Car Prototype Soars Over a Stopped Car
New videos from Alef Aeronautics show the company's flying car initially driving like a road vehicle, then taking off into a flight that takes it over another vehicle in a simulation of a blocked ...
New Atlas29d
Watch: Insanely ambitious flying car project gets off the ground
California startup Alef Aeronautics has released "the first documented, verifiable flight of a flying car (an actual car, with vertical takeoff, non-tethered)," as CEO Jim Dukhovny wrote in a ...