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The final aerial victory of the European Air War on May 8, 1945

There are multiple reports of the aerial combats between American and Soviet aircraft on May 8 and thereafter. After Adolf Hitler died by suicide on...

Ex-Pakistan Air Force pilot, awarded for claiming 3 alleged victories during the Six-Day War, passed away

In the June 1967 War, Saif ul-Azam claimed and received credit for shooting down three Israeli jets. But his statements continue to be "unclear." Saif...

Crossbows, Big Bens and Divers: a quick look at Allied Operations against Hitler’s V-Weapons

In July and August 1944 approximately 30 percent of RAF Bomber Command sorties and tonnage was directed against V-1 and V-2 sites, as was...

Luftwaffe fighter pilot Werner Mölders, who developed the finger-four formation

His innovative strategies had such a profound effect that eventually all of the participating air forces in World War II adopted his pair system,...

Why Hitler’s bombardment of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War was his greatest success

The world believed that the Luftwaffe could easily burn down entire cities as a result of the greatly inflated tales of the bombing, which...

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Why an A-7E pilot had to keep his hands off the stick during cat launch

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Why, if Phantom II was built by Grumman instead of McDonnell Douglas, it would have been a better aircraft

McDonnell Douglas F-4 Designed initially as a high-altitude interceptor, the...

Navy A-4 pilot recalls a WWI biplane simulated an attack on his Skyhawk

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The ‘left afterburner technique’ and SR-71 air refueling challenges

The SR-71 needed to be refueled approximately every hour....

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