Aces
Richard A. Martin |
Published: September 22, 2010 at 11:58 am
Self-taught filmmaker Jan Goldstein got tired of waiting for someone to make an in-depth documentary about pilots and planes of World War I and created 'The Great War in the Air' on his own.
Published: September 22, 2010 at 10:52 am
The November 2010 Letter From Aviation History discusses the Battle of Britain's 70th anniversary and C.G. Sweeting's upcoming book The Battle of Britain: The German Experience.
Published: July 26, 2010 at 11:33 am
The September 2010 Aviation History has article on Lockheed engineer Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, the SR-71's record-breaking flight from London to L.A., Adolf Hitler's personal fleet, Curtiss advertisements, the 10th Photoreconaissance Group and the Vickers Vulture amphibian.
Published: May 21, 2010 at 9:45 am
The July 2010 Letter From Aviation History discusses the technological leap represented by Germany's Messerschmitt ME-262 jet, and how it came too late to impact World War II.
Walter J. Boyne |
Published: January 08, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Aviation History's Top 10 Best Aviation Movies include Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines, Hell's Angels, The Dam Busters, and The Bridges at Toko-Ri; the Top 10 Worst include Top Gun, Snakes on a Plane, and Pearl Harbor.
Published: May 15, 2009 at 2:22 pm
The July 2009 Aviation History Reader's Poll asks if Royal Navy Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown was the best test pilot to ever live.
C.V. Glines |
Published: January 09, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Gabby Gabreski nearly failed out of his Army Air Corps flight training, but went on to become the top American fighter ace in Europe during World War II and a jet ace in Korea.
Published: November 19, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Letters to Aviation History magazine include an eyewitness account of a P-61 Black Widow's crash in New Guinea; memories of WWII Ace Everett C. “Carl” Hargreaves; restoring the Memphis Belle; and how actress Swoosie Kurtz got her name.
Published: September 03, 2008 at 10:05 am
Germany's top World War II fighter ace was credited with 352 victories. The leading Allied ace had 62. Online discussion: What do you think accounts for the disparity between Axis and Allied fighter victory tallies?
O'Brien Browne |
Published: May 17, 2007 at 11:04 am
Edward “Mick” Mannock, the Irish-born RAF ace of World War I, proved he was a man of extraordinary gifts with his leadership and combat skills.
Jon Guttman |
Published: January 24, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Richard Ira Bong shot down 40 Japanese aircraft and "ruled the air from New Guinea to the Philippines" on his way to becoming America's Ace of Aces.
Published: January 16, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Colonel Harold Fischer survived two years in a Chinese prison camp after getting shot down over Manchuria.Interview by Bob Bergin
Jon Guttman |
Published: January 05, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Georges Guynemer was only France's second-ranking ace of World War I, but he remains the most famous of them all.
William B. Allmon |
Published: November 14, 2006 at 11:09 am
Captain James Jabara became the first American ace in Korea when he turned his fifth MiG into a 'whirl of fire'...and he had only just begun. Before he was done, he would record 15 'kills.'
Published: November 06, 2006 at 1:41 pm
With 27 1/2 confirmed aerial kills, George Preddy -- the top-scoring Mustang ace of World War II -- was undefeated until he ran into friendly fire on Christmas Day during the 1944 Ardennes offensive.By Kelly Bell
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:18 pm
Flying the big Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, Bob Johnson survived a lot of punishment at the hands of the Luftwaffe. He inflicted even more.
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