Flight Journal
WACO YKC - Stunning and Ultra Rare Golden Age Cabin Flier
BETWEEN THE IMPLEMENTATION of the Air Commerce Act of 1926 and December 31, 1948, all U.S. registered flying machines sported an N-number, much as they do today, the \"N\" being an internationally recognized identifier for the United States. During that period, however, an additional letter-identifier followed the \"N.\" Depending on their category, they were registered in the NC (Commercial), NG (Glider), NL (Limited), NR (Restricted, usually meaning race airplanes), NS (State government), and, finally, NX (experimental).
2 min |
July - August 2024
Flight Journal
"SATAN'S ANGELS" ACE - Tales from a P-38 pilot in the South Pacific
\"AS A KID GROWING UP on the bow of my father's tugboat, hauling oil from Seattle to Alaska, I had a lot of time on my hands.
10+ min |
July - August 2024
Flight Journal
KC-46A PEGASUS
Next generation aerial refueler
10+ min |
July - August 2024
Flight Journal
BADER'S HURRICANES
Double amputee fighter ace Douglas Bader and his Battle of Britain Hurricanes
10+ min |
July - August 2024
Flight Journal
Training Mission
BY THE TIME THIS TRAINING SCENE WAS RECORDED in Canne, Italy, in July 1944, Allied Yugoslavian airmen had several years of experience working side by side with the RAF.
2 min |
July - August 2024
Flight Journal
STARFIRES Over Korea
F-94 pilots tangle with MiGs
10 min |
July - August 2024
Flight Journal
BANSHEE WAIL!
Flying Skulls over Burma
10+ min |
November - December 2023
Flight Journal
Fw 190 STURMBÖCKE
The Luftwaffe's \"Battering Rams\" against the USAAF heavy bombers
10+ min |
November - December 2023
Flight Journal
KILLER CORSAIR
Albert Wells, Death Rattlers Ace
10+ min |
November - December 2023
Flight Journal
BACKSTREET BRAWLER
A young man, his Hurricane and the Battle of Britain
10+ min |
November - December 2023
Flight Journal
Scourge of the Allied Fighters
IT HAD TO BE THE MOST HELPLESS FEELING in the world: you're at 25,000 feet over Europe knowing that your primary function is to drop bombs-or flying escort for the bombers while being a slow-moving target for some of the world's finest shooters. However, you have John Browning's marvelous .50 caliber invention to give some degree of protection. Unfortunately, you're absolutely helpless against flak. Piloting and gunnery skills play no role in a game where sheer chance makes life and death decisions. For that reason, the Krupp 88 mm Flak 18/36/37 AA cannon could be considered WW II's ultimate stealth fighter. You never saw it coming.
3 min |
November - December 2023
Flight Journal
ZERO MYTH, MYSTERY, AND FACT
A test pilot compares the A6M5 Zero to U.S. fighters
10+ min |
November - December 2023
Flight Journal
American BEAUTY
\"Forgotten Fifteenth\" top-scoring Mustang ace John J. Voll
10+ min |
November - December 2023
Flight Journal
General Curtis LeMay
Strategic Air Command Creator & Commander
8 min |
September - October 2023
Flight Journal
NOORDUYN NORSEMAN
Canada's rugged, fabric-covered workhorse
8 min |
September - October 2023
Flight Journal
Stinson AT-19
The Reliant goes to war
4 min |
September - October 2023
Flight Journal
Firepower
AS AN EVOLVING WEAPONS PLATFORM, the Boeing B-17 underwent numerous changes during its production run to increase its survivability over deadly Axis-held skies.
1 min |
September - October 2023
Flight Journal
EJECTING FROM A HAWKER HUNTER
Roderick Kurtz punches out after an encounter with a USAF F-35
10+ min |
September - October 2023
Flight Journal
Adventures in the WAIRAPA WILD CAT
A New Zealand P-40 warrior racks up the kills
10 min |
September - October 2023
Flight Journal
A good landing is one you can walk away from
NO, THIS IS NOT A SCENE FROM A MOVIE where the hero staggers away from a \"good landing\" on Mindoro, Philippine Islands, after being shot down by a Japanese Zero.
1 min |
September - October 2023
Flight Journal
Still Flying After All These Years
One of the oldest airworthy J-3 Cubs
3 min |
September - October 2023
Flight Journal
Flying the MESSERSCHMITT ME 109
Thrilling tales of aerial supremacy
4 min |
September - October 2023
Flight Journal
BA Swallow - Slab-sided floater
The British Aircraft (BA) Swallow originated in Germany in 1927 as the Klemm L.25, a tandem two-seat, low-wing, all-wood monoplane. Klemm first exported to Britain in March 1929 and started a small \"flood.\"
2 min |
July - August 2023
Flight Journal
FLYING THE ROC!
Stratolaunch test pilot Evan Thomas on flying the world's largest operational airplane
10 min |
July - August 2023
Flight Journal
SPITFIRE SPY - over China
Unauthorized, high-risk photo-recon missions
10+ min |
July - August 2023
Flight Journal
Forgiveness - Lt. Gen. Richard Reynolds on crashing a $379 million B-1 prototype
By the time Lieutenant General Richard Reynolds retired from the USAF in 2005, he’d had a distinguished 34-year career as a B-52 pilot, an Air Force test pilot with experience flying 72 different aircraft types, a B-2 system program office director, a commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB, and more.
10 min |
July - August 2023
Flight Journal
SABRE-RATTLING - Flying F-100s and F-86s in Korea
I GREW UP IN TOLEDO, OHIO with my mother, who provided the most influence in my life and my two sisters. My father, who was a World War I veteran, had died when I was only seven years old, right at the beginning of the Second World War.
10+ min |
July - August 2023
Flight Journal
PAYBACK - B-25s settle the score on the Rising Sun
As I sat silently in my B-25-shrewdly named \"Fickle Finger of Fate\"awaiting the signal from the Navy deckhand to start my engines, I thought long and hard about how I ended up here and about the unknown that lay ahead.
10+ min |
July - August 2023
Flight Journal
"GENTLEMEN, YOU HAD A RACE ...The end of the Reno Air Races BY JAN TEGLER ייף
It has been almost 59 years since legendary pilot Bob Hoover first uttered the famous words, “Gentlemen, you have a race!”
2 min |
July - August 2023
Flight Journal
"America" Flies Again
Restoring the Curtiss Seaplane
4 min |