The Century Series project is a way of thinking about research, development, manufacturing, and airplanes in service. The shapes of these planes are also instantly recognizable. Learn more about the final entries of the Century Series: the F-105, F-106, and the elusive F-107. The Republic F-105 Thunderchief This plane was an internal Republic Aviation project […] More
The US Air Force plans to retire the old A-10 Warthog attack jet within the next 5 years. However, there’s only one problem – there isn’t a dedicated close air support platform to replace it yet, making pilots worry that troops on the ground won’t be getting the air support they need in the next […] More
The Westland Whirlwind is a highly capable twin-engine heavy fighter and also one of the fastest combat aircraft when it first took the skies. Apart from that, it was also the most heavily armed fighter in the world. This was all thanks to one of the most insane cannons – the Hispano-Suiza HS.404. Four Hispano-Suiza […] More
The Vickers Wellington is a British two-engined, long-range medium bomber that became the main medium bomber aircraft of the Royal Air Force during the Start of World War II. Here are five facts about this strange bomber: 1. It outlasted many of its 1930’s designed contemporaries The Wellington was designed as early as 1932, meeting […] More
German pilots rained destruction on the Basque town of Guernica, as its residents experienced the most harrowing moments of their lives. Meanwhile, for the Luftwaffe, it was an opportunity to refine their techniques, making them unstoppable. Formidable Force Created just a year before, in 1935, the German Luftwaffe was already shaping itself up to become […] More
There’s no doubt that the F-15 Eagle is one of the most iconic fighter jets of all time. After all, it has been in service with the United States Air Force for over four decades. It had a reputation for being virtually unbeatable when it comes to air-to-air combat and holds a record of having […] More
Classic, Underrated Movie In the movie, The Final Countdown, there was a scene where the Japanese pilot attempted to force the F-14 into the water. The pilot who did the close-to-the-water hammerhead and pull-out was Richard “Fox” Farrell. This daring move led to the F-14 kicking up a significant amount of seawater, which pushed the […] More
Pretty Impressive Stuff In this footage, we get to see the F-35 of RAF Lakenheath carry out a high key low approach, a kind of engine approach in case there’s an engine failure. This means that this is just a simulated approach, and it shows us the approach procedure should an engine failure happen. It’s […] More
Robert Perschitti is a WWII veteran who served in the Navy aboard the USS El Dorado during the fighting in Okinawa and Iwo Jima. 24-year-old YouTuber Rishi Sharma, an avid WWII enthusiast on a mission to meet and interview every living WWII veteran of the Allied countries, filmed an interview back in October 2022 with […] More
Strategic bomber aviation has been a long-time pride of the Soviet and Russian Air Force, and now the time has come for it to enter a new era of warfare. This is the story of the first new Russian bomber after 40 years of silence. Is it a new cutting-edge design or just another expensive […] More
The Latecoere 631 was in every sense a flying behemoth. In the 1930s, transatlantic flights were booming, and in 1936, the Directorate General for Civil Aviation in France issued a specification for a 20-passenger flying boat airliner with a range of 6,000 kilometers. Development In October 1937, Latecoere finalized their new and updated version of […] More
Beloved by its allies and hated by the enemy – this is the story behind Fairchild Republic’s A-10 Thunderbolt II, otherwise known as the Warthog. German Roots The A-10 borrowed a lot of concepts from the Henschel Hs 129 and Junkers Ju-87G, both of which were German WWII aircraft known for their roles as “Tank […] More
