Aviation

Heinschel Hs-129: The A-10's Grandaddy! Early Prototypes and Development Designed from the ground up as a bespoke attack aircraft, the...

FrankenFlogger The Extraordinary Repair of the MiG-23 Flashback to 2019 when the LNA patched-up a MiG-23 using all sorts of...

Analogue Technology to the Rescue! Back in WWII, German ace Adolf Galland had a rifle scope installed in his Bf-109...

Hans Ulrich Rudel: One Man Airwing The Evolution of the Stuka By 1943, the Stuka was obsolete as a dive...

When an Aircraft Carrier Became a Power Generator If you have an aircraft carrier, you have (electrical) power! Tacoma's Power...

New Wings over the Caribbean? De Havilland Dash-8 Surveillance Aircraft Spotted Recently, a pair of De Havilland Dash-8 Surveillance Aircraft,...

Air Launched Cruise Missile The US designed a purpose ALCM in 1974. It was called the AGM-86. It was the...

GSh-23V 23mm Dual Auto-cannon: Your Argument is Invalid Design and Development The GSh-23V was designed in 1965 in the Soviet...

LZ66: Busy Zeppelin! LZ66 took her first flight in April 1916, two years into WWI. During a 16-month long career,...

Green Mace Heavy Anti-Aircraft Gun QF 127/58 SBT X1 was developed in 1956 by Vickers. The goal was to be...