[Updated] Diamond Jubilee flypast over London as seen from a four-engined...
Released by the UK’s Ministry of Defence, the following footage brings you on board an Avro Lancaster bomber of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight during the Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee...
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[Special Feature] D-Day: a +1000 Aerial Armada (including troop-carrying...
At 22.15 on the evening of Jun. 5 1944, the first engine on the first plane spluttered into life announcing the biggest airborne operation ever undertaken: delayed by 24 hours due to poor weather...
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If you want to know what an airbase in Central Europe was like during the...
During early 1945 the allies were building up for the final push across the Rhine and found themselves in need of several airfields close to the front line. Advanced Landing Ground Goch (B-100) was...
View Article"Tall Man 55": B-58 Hustler supersonic bomber propaganda movie aimed at...
The following is an interesting ’60s propaganda movie about the Convair B-58 Hustler whose purpose was to raise the awareness of the Americans about the U.S. Air Force operations (“jet noise is the...
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"Operation Mikado": A one way mission to wipe out Argentine Exocet Missiles...
Thirty years ago, during the Falklands conflict (Malvinas for the Argentine people) shipping loses to the Royal Navy were beginning to mount. Something had to be done to remove the threat of attack...
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USS Iwo Jima would have been loaned to the Royal Navy if the British had lost...
During the 1982 Falklands War (Malvinas for the Argentine people) the U.S. publicly claimed neutrality. But in secret, President Ronald Reagan’s administration had developed plans to loan a ship to the...
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U-2 reconnaissance flights and B-52 nuclear deterrence missions during the...
On Oct. 14 1962, a U-2 spyplane took a reconnaissance flight over Western Cuba which set the world on a road that took it close to nuclear Armageddon. The whole saga began some two years earlier, when...
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You will not believe this weird flying machine flew 1,000 test flights 60...
The Saab J-35 Draken is one of the most famous Swedish aircraft, ever. However, its particular double delta wing configuration was something never seen before in the ’50s and, in order to move towards...
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Emergency over North Sea: cockpit recording lets you hear aircrew ejecting...
The cockpit audio you can find below in the form of video with trancript was recorded in 1975, during a flight that ended with the ejection of a pilot and a WSO (Weapon System Officer) out of a U.S....
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Stunning MiG-21 Highway Operations in the Polish equivalent of Top Gun
Regarding the last post about the Korean MiG-21s’ highway operations here’s another interesting thing. It is a fragment of a Polish movie Na Niebie i Na Ziemii (In the Sky & On the Ground) which is...
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This rocket-like plane could have been the SR-71 Blackbird replacement
The following image, published by Code One on its Facebook page, shows configuration SA-2S, an SR-71 Blackbird replacement concept that was studied by Convair in the early ’60s. According to Code One,...
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Broken Arrow incidents: when U.S. B-52 bombers lost their nuclear weapons...
Back in 1955, when it entered the operational service with the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC), the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress had the nuclear strike against the Soviet forces as its main...
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Seen from the inside: stunning Lancaster’s on-board video shows aerial...
On May 16-17, UK’s Royal Air Force celebrates the 70th anniversary of one its most famous raid in RAF history: the Dams raid conducted by 617 Squadron. The “Dambusters”, half of those never returned...
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Spitfire vs Bf 109 and F-14 vs Su-27: the difference is always the pilot
It’s not always the best aircraft that wins in an air-to-air engagement. Most of the times it is the training the pilot has received and his/her skills, experience to make the difference: that’s why a...
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Radio chatter clip of WWII Lancaster bomber engaged by German plane during a...
Since radios were not so advanced, audio clips from World War Two are quite rare. This make the following radio chatter clip of a Lancaster bomber being attacked by a German fighter during a war...
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Mig-25 defection: How a Soviet Pilot Brought a Secret Warplane To The West
Viktor Belenko, is a Mig-25 pilot who defected to the United States via Japan on Sept. 6, 1976. The then Lieutenant Belenko was a pilot with the 513th Fighter Regiment, 11th Air Army, based in...
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A-7 Corsair II and the VAL program: how a multiservice aircraft should be...
There are several examples of combat aircraft that were born with the aim to serve in two or three different services of the same nation in aviation history. Usually, these programs face many problems...
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Watch this: GoPro video shows the point of view from the retractable ball...
After watching the awesome clip of a Lancaster flying over London, many readers have sent links to other footage worth a look. For instance, the extremely interesting video in this post gives a...
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Stunning video shows C-130 pilot’s view of the California’s Rim Fire
Recorded from the cockpit of a 146th Airlift Wing’s C-130J on Aug. 22, 2013, at 5.50PM, the following video provides a stunning view of California’s Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park from the...
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Is this futuristic jet the replacement for the Polish Sukhoi Su-22 Fitter?
During the recent Kielce Defense Fair, the Polish Air Force Technical Institute (ITWL – Instytut Techniczny Wojsk Lotniczych) has announced that it continues to work on the Grot-2 airplane. The Grot-2...
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