Aviation History - USA (2019-09)

Since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the 394th had been patrolling the ocean around Hawaii and training crews. Now it was ...

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the sound of approaching engines and watching the sky. There was widespread relief when Ripley’s *ÅVITTaTIVLMLI\)R ...

A s time passed the crews grew fonder of their old warplanes, if not their Wright engines, and between searches found time to pa ...

25,000 feet. They had no choice but to turn back. On July 11 Roddenberry was in Yankee Doodle with a load of frag bombs for the ...

44 AH September 2019 AIR RAID RE-CREATION Supermarine Spitfires scramble to get into the sky as Duxford airfield comes under att ...

FIFTY YEARS AGO, FILMING THE CLASSIC AIR EPIC REQUIRED FORMER ADVERSARIES TO RELIVE THE WAR, AND REOPEN OLD WOUNDS BY DON HOLLWA ...

46 AH AS USUAL, THE ODDS WERE AGAINST THE ROYAL AIR FORCE. THIS TIME IT WAS JUST ONE HEINKEL BOMBER,^ BUT WITH AN ESCORT OF 17 M ...

Squadron Leader Ron Chadwick acquired them on ground-con- trol radar, but could WVTa[MVL\_WÅOP\MZ[\W intercept them. “We ar ...

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we retired.” But Hamilton, who had lived through the Blitz, served in the Royal Navy and survived the infamous decimation of Con ...

kite,” he said. “You can tell by their smell!” That Buchón had likely never seen Germany. Robert Shaw said aghast, “I never knew ...

HOLLYWOOD’S FICTIONAL U.S. AIR FORCE FILMS OFTEN DIVERGED FROM REALITY, BUT MOST ARE WORTH WATCHING IF ONLY FOR THE AERIAL SEQUE ...

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54 AH september 2019 IN THE MID- TO LATE 1940S THE DRONE AND ROAR OF AIRCRAFT PISTON ENGINES FADED AND WAS REPLACED BY THE HOWL ...

Needle-nosed jets with sweptback wings were an irresistible draw to those raised on space heroes like .TI[P/WZLWVIVL*]KS:WOM ...

American B-45 Tor- nado. Audiences were further treated to an early demonstration by the Air Force Thunder- birds in their F-84F ...

reached Mach .92 in a vertical dive, and when he X]TTMLW]\\PMONWZKM[\WZM\PMMTM^I\WZWٺ\PM\IQT along with about a thir ...

they had the footage they needed.” Douglas was QUXZM[[MLJa\PMÅVITÅTU “It really made the B-36 look good,” he said. “That w ...