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Today In Aviation History: Operation Blue Moon is Launched
On October 23, 1962, U.S. Navy RF-8A Crusaders launched Operation Blue Moon, conducting low-level reconnaissance…
Grounded Dreams: Caproni Ca.90 – The Six- Engine Leviathan of the Interwar Sky
The Caproni Ca.90 was a massive six-engine Italian bomber that carried 8,000 kg of bombs…
Today in Aviation History – Chuck Yeager Breaks The Sound Barrier
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 14, 1947, at approximately…
Today in Aviation History – Chuck Yeager Becomes Ace In a Day
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 12, 1944, First Lieutenant…
Today in Aviation History – The First Aerial Combat Victory Took Place
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation The first official victory during aerial…
Warbird Profile: Leroys’s Last – the Grumman F3F
text by Stephen Chapis images by Luigino Caliaro The Grumman F3F had the dubious honor…
Today in Aviation History – First Flight of The Bell XP-59A Airacomet
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 1, 1942, at Muroc…
Today In Aviation History – First Flight of The F-86 Sabre
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 1, 1947, after three…
Today in Aviation History – First Flight of The McDonnell F-101 Voodoo
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On September 29, 1954, at Edwards…
Today in Aviation History – Robin Olds’ Final Combat Mission
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On September 23, 1967, Colonel Robin…
More Little Lambs – Baa Baa Black Sheep Revisited
UPDATE as July 2025: Key Publishing has just activated the pre-order link on their…
Today in Aviation History – First Flight of The North American Aviation XB-70 Prototype
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On September 21, 1964, the first…
Dual-Role Commemoration for Joe Foss and the 175th Fighter Squadron SD ANG
by Stephen Chapis Over the past several months we have featured several recent examples of…
This Day in Aviation History – First Tethered Flight of The Vought-Sikorsky VS-300
On September 14 1939 at Stratford, Connecticut, Igor Sikorsky made the first tethered flight of…
Darkest of Days – The 113th Wing on 9/11
For those of us old enough to properly remember this day 20 years ago, it…
Randy’s Warbird Profiles – Lockheed M-21 Blackbird
Since his other posts received such a warm welcome, we thought our readers might enjoy…
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