The Berlin airlift begins.
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PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Cessna T-37 Tweet
Cessna T-37B-CE Tweet (c/n 40978, formerly 66-8002 USAF), exhibited in Luftfahrtmuseum Wernigerode, Germany; June 2018. From its creation in December of 1947, the independent US Air Force struggled with significantly downsized training structures. All primary […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Grob G 109B
Grob G 109B (c/n 6413, G-OSNX of the AeroSPARX display team, formerly OH-740) taxiing at Kleine-Brogel AFB during the Spotter Day 2024, Kleine-Brogel, September 2024. In the late 1970s, the German aviation company Grob Aerospace […]
AVIATION HISTORY
30 August 1914 – German aircraft drops first bombs on Paris
On 30th August 1914, only a month after the outbreak of the Great War, a single German Taube aircraft performed an air raid on the French capital, dropping a few bombs and a bag of […]