History

A man who bought a new house in Middlesbrough found something that was not in the property’s details – a Second World War bunker. when looking through the overgrown grass in his garden, Mr Scott discovered what he originally thought was a drain pipe cover but But it turned out …

On the morning of Jan. 17, 1991 — the first night of Operation Desert Storm — the U.S. Navy suffered its first loss of the conflict, when Lt. Cmdr Scott Speicher was shot down in his McDonnell F/A-18C Hornet, bureau number 163484, around 100 miles west of Baghdad. Operation Desert Storm, popularly known as …

On Mar. 21, 1962 a B-58 Hustler from the U.S. Air Force erupted in flames as a large, bright red capsule shot out of it, carrying a passenger to safety. But the passenger wasn’t a pilot, and the plane wasn’t crashing. The event was a test of the B-58’s experimental …

On 19 April 1989, the Number Two 16-inch gun turret of the United States Navy battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) exploded. The explosion in the center gun room killed 47 of the turret’s crewmen and severely damaged the gun turret itself. On April 19, 1989, the day of the blast, the …

On April 18th, 1942, less than four months after the attacked Pearl Harbor the United States was about to launch their first offensive against the Japanese. Leading this incredibly dangerous mission into unknown territory was the legendary Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle. He assembled the finest B-25 Mitchells crews went through …

Retired Lt. Col. Dick Cole, the last surviving member of the Doolittle Raiders who rallied the nation’s spirit during the darkest days of World War II, has passed away. Tom Casey, president of the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders Association, confirmed to Air Force Times that Cole died Tuesday morning in San …

The sad story of two USAF pilots Who Lost Their Lives in F-111 shot down during Operation El Dorado Canyon On Apr. 14, 1986, at 5:13 p.m., U.S. Air Force (USAF) F-111F Aardvarks from the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing (TFW) took off from Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath on the …

F-105 Pussy Galore was aircraft flown by Captain Victor “Vic” Vizcarra. One of the most famous, or infamous, depending on your point of view, F-105D was known as Pussy Galore. According to an interesting post appeared on Reddit, the original Pussy Galore I marking was painted in July 1965. The idea …

Among the strangest mishaps in aviation are those where the plane makes off without a pilot.   Here 3 historic events in which plane flew itself after pilot ejection 1) 1989 Belgium MiG-23 crash On 4 July 1989, a pilotless MiG-23 jet fighter of the Soviet Air Forces crashed into …

As explained by Alvin Towley in his book Fly Navy: Discovering the Extraordinary People and Enduring Spirit of Naval Aviation,  Joe “Hoser” Satrapa was set to duel two versus two with a pair of U.S. Air Force (USAF) F-15 Eagles On the tarmac, Hoser’s wingman had mechanical trouble and couldn’t …