13 May 2025
  • PHOTO OF THE WEEK

    Embraer ERJ 135ER

    Embraer ERJ 135ER (c/n 145376, G-RJXL of BMI Regional), taxiing at Franz Josef Strauss Airport, Munich, October 2018. Development of the Embraer ERJ (Embraer Regional Jet) aircraft family began in the late 1980s, with the ERJ 145 – an airliner [...]
  • MILITARY AVIATION

    Medevac operations in French Guiana

    In early April of 2025, Forces armées en Guyane – FAG (the Armed Forces in French Guiana) performed three medevac operations within forty-eight hours. All missions were successfully completed by Cayenne-based Escadron de Transport 68 (the 68th Transport Squadron) ´Antilles-Guyane´, [...]
  • AVIATION HISTORY

    9 May 1888 – Francesco Baracca is born

    On 9th May 1888, Count Francesco Baracca, the best Italian air ace of the Great War, was born. Francesco Luigi Giuseppe Baracca was born in Lugo (commonly referred to as Lugo di Romagna or Lugo di Ravenna), Italy, into a [...]
  • PHOTO OF THE WEEK

    Maule M-5-210C Strata Rocket

    Maule M-5-210C Strata Rocket (c/n 6034C, OK-ESM), taxiing for sightseeing flight within Den ve vzduchu 2025 air show, Plasy, April 2025. The story of Maule aircraft starts in 1911, with Belford David Maule, who was born in Ohio, the United [...]

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Boulton Paul Defiant

by Jacek Domański in SHORT AVIATION STORIES

The Boulton Paul Defiant was designed in the mid-1930s, as a response to rapid development of fast bomber aircraft and aerial warfare model based on [...]

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