Sue Long, a widow of a World War II pilot, received this letter from a 90-year-old German fighter pilot who was shot down by Long's husband south of Bonn, Germany in 1944. The Dallas Morning News / ...
Wichita? They had been enemies once, a long time ago. But as Horst Petzschler talked about what it was like to be a pilot in Germany’s Luftwaffe during World War II, the gray-haired men in the ...
This is kind of a cool item from the UK’s Daily Mail, for the first time since the two air arms fought each other in the skies over Europe during World War II, an RAF flight lieutenant piloted a ...
PARIS (AP) — A former pilot for Nazi Germany’s air force writes in a forthcoming book that he believes he shot down the author of “The Little Prince,” Antoine de Saint-Exupery. The aviation pioneer’s ...
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt entered World War II as an object of ridicule, dismissed by German pilots as slow, heavy, and ...
Morane-Saulnier M.S. 406 was the most numerous French fighter aircraft at the beginning of WW2. Curtiss Hawk was the first type in French service to face the mighty Luftwaffe but the domestically ...
That German Luftwaffe pilots should be training to remotely fly drones isn't surprising. That they're doing their training in Israel, now that's a bit of an eyebrow raiser. Germany is obviously a much ...
Two WWII ace pilots, Col. Clarence "Bud" Anderson and Cmdr. Dean "Diz" Laird, both over 100 years old, took a celebratory flight in a Boeing Stearman biplane. The flight was arranged by Dream Flights, ...
In duels over Eastern Europe, the agile fighter scored kill after kill David Kindy - Correspondent The P-51 Mustang was the darling of the Army Air Forces. Aerodynamically agile and acrobatic, the ...