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On October 23, 1962, U.S. Navy RF-8A Crusaders launched Operation Blue Moon, conducting low-level reconnaissance…
The Caproni Ca.90 was a massive six-engine Italian bomber that carried 8,000 kg of bombs…
by Stephen Chapis In the most recent issue of Warbird Digest, we highlighted the Bealeton,…
by Richard Paver If you’re unfamiliar with the term rephotography, it involves the process of…
Since his childhood, Randy Malmstrom has had a passion for aviation history and historic military…
by Richard Paver If you’re unfamiliar with the term rephotography, it involves the process of…
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided…
On June 24, 1942, the first production Vought-Sikorsky F4U-1 Corsair, Bu. No. 02155, made its…
From an original article by the Naval History and Heritage Command The U.S. Navy’s offensive…
By Pete Mecca Arranging an interview quickly turns into something even more exciting when the…
From the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution's newsletter One hundred years…
Advertorial In 2020 the United States Air Force awarded LIFT Airborne Technologies an OTA Agreement…
By Stephen Chapis At first glance one might mistake it for an F-16A of the…
by Richard Mallory Allnutt (Editor) As we reported recently, the aviation-themed TV miniseries, Masters of the…
Text by Stephen Chapis Photo Luigino Caliaro Though the Lockheed T-33 is viewed as a…
Advertorial* By Stephen Chapis In 1944, having built more than 30,000 military aircraft and the…
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