‘Puff the Magic Dragon’: The ‘Spooky’ Story of the AC-47 Gunship
Unleashing horrifying firepower and raining death and destruction on to the communist…
Packing a Deadly Bite, the P-61 Black Widow was a Nocturnal Nemesis to Axis Aircraft
Northrop’s night fighter was large, heavily armed, and fast for its size;…
The Soviet Union’s First Jet Bomber: The Ilyushin Il-28 ‘Beagle’
Making a flyover appearance at the 1950 Soviet May Day parade, the…
Germany’s Renaissance Fighter: The Heinkel He 51
Kept under a veil of civilian airlines, glider clubs, and civil aviation…
Ford’s Trimotor ‘Tin Goose’: The Story of the 4-AT and 5-AT
Henry Ford claimed the all-metal, three-engine airliner was “the safest airliner around”,…
The Avia S-199: Israel’s Unlikely Deliverer
The newly formed State of Israel made use of the only thing…