Flight Journal

THE COMBAT LIFE of Messerschmitt Bf 109E-3 Wk. Nr. 1342 and its pilot Eduard “Edi” Hemmerling were short and ended on July 29, 1940, during the Battle of Britain. Almost five decades later, a Frenchman’s chance encounter on a beach near Calais reveal

In 1988, a Frenchman walking on the beach near Cap Blanc-Nez near Calais, France, discovered a piece of metal sticking out of the sand. There had been a storm and, as sometimes happens, the sand on the beach had shifted, revealing something that had

On January 16, 1991 Nighthawks unleashed their stealth capabilities and Guided Bomb Units (GBUs) on Baghdad and some of the most heavily defended airfields in Iraq. During the “43 Day War,” F-117As of the 415th and 416th Tactical Fighter Squadrons fl

Headquartered just over a mile from the often frozen waters of the Niagara River and Lake Erie in Buffalo, New York, Bell Aircraft Company and its founder Larry Bell were known for doing things differently in the late 1930s. In 1937, the company debu

IT WAS EARLY DECEMBER 1950. More than 120,000 Chinese troops had crossed into North Korea and encircled 30,000 troops from the U.S. Marine Corps’ 1st Division, the U.S. Army’s 7th and 3rd Infantry Divisions, and U.N. forces around the reservoir with

The evening sun was low on the horizon as John Cyrier taxied toward the Commemorative Air Force’s (CAF’s) ramp at San Marcos, Texas on July 28. He had just completed the final leg of a four-stop flight home from AirVenture 2022 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

General Curtis E. LeMay, Air Force Chief of Staff, was not happy. First-line U.S. fighters had been in South East Asia in small numbers since 1960. By mid-1964, more fighters began rotating through bases in South Vietnam and Thailand as a show of for

IF YOU WERE AT THE 2022 EAA AIRVENTURE Oshkosh airshow, you may have had the chance to see something truly unique early one morning: the rooster crowing to wake you was replaced with the magical rumble of two F7F Tigercats and four P-51 Mustangs, a s

“AT THE END OF THE WAR, there was an interview with a senior German U-boat commander asking why they pulled their submarines from the Atlantic coast in 1943,” American Airlines Boeing 737 captain Sean Neal recalls. “His reply was, ‘It was because of