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Founded by Hugo Junkers in 1895, Junkers Aircraft and Motor Works pioneered all-metal aircraft with the Junkers J 1 and later built the world's…
Established as Torpedo Squadron 4 (VT-4) in 1942, Attack Squadron 15 (VA-15) served in the Atlantic and Pacific during WWII, taking part in Oper…
Retired U.S. Navy diver Dave McCampbell will share photographs and stories from years spent documenting WWII aircraft crash sites across the rem…
Randy Malmstrom profiles Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-3 Werknummer 1342, a rare surviving Emil with a remarkable wartime and postwar history. Flown by…
Established in 1949 as Reserve Fighter Squadron 653 (VF-653), Attack Squadron 23 (VA-23) evolved into one of the US Navy's frontline attack squa…
The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force will host author J. Ross Greene on Aug. 20 for a presentation on his book "A Fortress and a L…
Poland's History and Modernity Foundation is leading a nationwide crowdfunding campaign to build a flying replica of the RWD-6, the aircraft tha…
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation
On October 20, 1956, Bell Aircraft Corporation Chief Pilot Floyd W. Carlson and Chief Experimental Test Pilot Elton J. Smith made the first flig…
October 1942: At Muroc Dry Lake, in the high desert north of Los Angeles, California, Bell Aircraft Corporation’s Chief Test Pilot, Robert Morri…
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation
1974: On a flight to the Farnborough Air Show outside London, Maj. James Sullivan and Maj. Noel Widdifield fly the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird from…