On 6 December 1944, the new German single-engine jet fighter, the Heinkel He 162, made its maiden flight. The aircraft was developed under Jägernotprogramm (Emergency Fighter Programme), issued by Reichsluftfahrtministerium (Ministry of Aviation) on 3 […]
The Handley Page Halifax was a heavy bomber with twin vertical stabilisers, developed in response to Specification P.13/36 issued by the British Air Ministry in 1936. This document outlined the need for a medium-sized, high-performance […]
On 8th November 1942, with the beginning of Operation Torch in Africa, the anti-gravity suit developed by a Canadian scientist W.R. Franks, was for the first time used in combat. Wilbur Rounding Franks was born […]
On 24th September 1940, Vichy France carried out its first air raid on Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula. Approximately sixty bombers of the Vichy French Air […]
On 9th September 1942, a Japanese Yokosuka E14Y “Glen” floatplane dropped two incendiary bombs in the mountains of Oregon. The raid marked the first time that enemy aircraft had carried out an air raid on […]
On 6th September 1893, Claire Lee Chennault, an American military aviator and famous fighter pilot, was born in Commerce, Texas. Nevertheless, both date and place Chennault was born are just current (and official) version because […]
Taylorcraft Auster Mk V (c/n 1753, OK-BTA), flying display at Letecký den Cheb (Aviation Day Cheb), Cheb, August 2024. In 1930, Clarence Gilbert Taylor, the Chief Engineer of Taylor Aircraft Company developed a small, low-powered […]
On 19th August 1940, the prototype of B-25 Mitchell twin-engine medium bomber, performed its maiden flight at Mines Field, Los Angeles. The story of the well-known B-25 Mitchell bomber began in the late 1930s, when […]
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry – an aviator that needs no introduction. Who has not heard about ´The Little Prince´ and the author of this book? However, that book was just one among […]
Supermarine Seagull V / Walrus (c/n A2-4, formerly ´A2-4´ of the Royal Australian Navy, then VH-ALB), exhibited at the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon, London, July 2014. In May of 1921, the new flying […]
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