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Convair Kingfish: The Spy Plane That Lost to the A-12
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (496+ words) by Connor Kerr | Jul 17, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments Everyone knows the Lockheed A-12 and its famous descendant, the SR-71 Blackbird — the black, Mach-3 spy planes that outran every missile ever fired at them. Almost nobody remembers the aircraft that nearly…...
A Mission For Tourists | The Wall Street Journal - newspaper - Read this story on Magzter.com
7+ hour, 7+ min ago (216+ words) A Mission For Tourists | The Wall Street Journal - newspaper Magzter The waiter handed out menus rich with options, but as each guest ordered the man repeated, ânyet.â None of the listed dishes were available Only by asking what…...
Otsego VFW members take part in The Wall That Heals visit
7+ hour, 10+ min ago (63+ words) Wilcox Newspapers - Otsego VFW members take part in The Wall That Heals visit BATTLE CREEK— For members of Otsego VFW Post 3030 and its Auxiliary, the recent visit of The Wall That Heals to Battle Creek provided several opportunities to honor…...
The Hs 129 Was Supposed To Be The A-10 Of World War II
3+ hour, 7+ min ago (180+ words) At first glance, you might think the Henschel Hs 129 was the perfect ground-attack airplane. Twin engines. A heavily-armored cockpit that protected the pilot from small-arms fire. The aircraft even eventually had the heaviest and most powerful forward-firing cannon ever fitted…...
Reagan advisor Norman Bailey, a victor in the Cold War, dies at 95
9+ hour, 36+ min ago (818+ words) Dr. Norman A. Bailey passed away after a long illness on August 18 in Greensboro, NC. He was 95. A distinguished public servant and teacher, Bailey played a leading role in the Reagan administration’s strategy to defeat the Soviet Union in the Cold…...
Franz Stigler: The Enemy Who Spared a B-17
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (419+ words) por Tamika Johnson | 16 de julio de 2026 | Mundo de la aviación, Historia y leyendas | 0 comentarios Its pilot was Franz Stigler, one of the Luftwaffe’s best, a man who needed just one more kill for a medal. He had every advantage and…...
F9F Panther: Grumman's Korean War Jet
2+ week, 14+ hour ago (460+ words) di Tamika Johnson | 12 agosto 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 commenti On 3 July 1950, barely a week into the Korean War, Lieutenant JG Leonard Plog rolled his straight-winged jet onto the tail of a propeller-driven Yak-9 and squeezed the trigger. It was…...
Martin P6M SeaMaster: The Jet Flying Boat Bomber
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (570+ words) por Connor Kerr | 24 de julio de 2026 | Historia y leyendas, Aviación militar | 0 comentarios In the 1950s the U.S. Navy watched the Air Force build a fleet of long-range bombers to carry the nation’s nuclear deterrent — and decided it wanted in. Its…...
Kee Bird: The B-29 That Almost Flew Out of Greenland
16+ hour, 45+ min ago (672+ words) by Connor Kerr | Jul 3, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments On 21 May 1995, on a frozen lake 280 miles north of Thule, Greenland, a B-29 Superfortress that had not moved in forty-eight years swung onto its makeshift ice runway under its own power. Four…...
The Forgotten WWII Plan to Build a Hulking Aircraft Carrier—Out of Ice - AOL
23+ hour, 38+ min ago (228+ words) During World War II, there was a region of the Atlantic that aircraft could not reach to combat German U-boats, no matter where they were launched from. Eccentric inventor Geoffrey Pyke modified a material of wood pulp and ice created…...