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DIY aircraft boneyard
Nearly a decade after the Second World War drew to a close, a scrapyard worker in Ohio began diligently collecting surplus WWII warplanes and adding them to his personal backyard graveyard. Walter...
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House panel says nope on saving the A-10
Even as five SF soldiers were killed in a suspected blue-on-blue incident involving close air support by the supersonic B-1B bomber this week , the House Appropriations Committee, headed by Rep. Hal...
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DOD gets WWII-era T6 returned, scraps it.
Not making this up. The DLA Disposition Services posted this on their website a few days ago. After WWII the US military gave/loaned out military equipment to dozens of countries to help rebuild...
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F-22 talking smack with IRIAF F-4
The Aviationist reports that in March a U.S. MQ-1 drone came close to being intercepted by an Iranian F-4 Phantom combat plane, but the Iranian aircraft stopped short after a warning by an American...
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The bloated Barling
Here we see the flying monotonicity known as the Barling Bomber, which flew from 1923-27. Offically designated as the Witteman-Lewis XNBL-1 (Night Bombardment – Long Distance) this prototype war...
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B-52H dropping 45 bombs and plastering target all in under a minute
You are looking at 45 surplus M117 750lb general purpose (dumb) bombs being dropped out of the weapons bay of a B-52H Stratofortress in under two seconds. You can see the impacts seconds later on the...
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From tankbuster to tornado tracker
In a move to beat swords into plowshares, the National Science Foundation is funding a program to convert some A-10 Warthogs, soon to be retired from the Air Force, into storm trackers to pierce inland...
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Bad Bear! You Bad Bear!
According to the Washington Times, Soviet Russian Tu-95 Bear H bombers have come close enough to get ready jets scrambled 16 times in the past 10 days. You bad bear!
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Sounds like a fair trade
Just read that the USAF plans to replace its 350~ remaining A-10 “Warthog” close air support attack aircraft, which have proven reliable across the past thirty years….. We give you the A-10 at full...
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The ghost of the F-117 Nighthawk…just in case
The first operational ‘stealth bomber’ was the F-117 Nighthawk. Just 64 (5 YF-117As, 59 F-117As) of these craft were built in the early 1980s and their very existence remained classified until Nov...
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From Spooky to Spectre…
Yeah you are gonna want to big up this one “From SPOOKY to Spectre”, artist depiction of a modern AC-130 Spectre gunship, foreground and Vietnam-era AC-47 Spooky gunship, both engaging targets. Artist:...
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The strange case of the flying Grizzly and its 75mm gun
With the lead up to the invasion of Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany in World War II, the U.S. Army needed some serious air support on tap. While there were a number of capable aircraft on hand, such as...
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Burma Banshees
(Click to embiggen) Chinese mechanics assemble Curtiss P-40N Warhawks in Rangoon, Burma, 1944. These aircraft belong to the 80th Fighter Group (FG) otherwise known as the “Burma Banshees.” Their...
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No Antidote
Click to bigup “No Antidote” a B1B Lancer (aka BONE) bomber of the “Bats” of the 9th Bomb Squadron (9 BS ,7th Operations Group, Air Combat Command, stationed at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. The 9BS is...
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Whats $400 milly between friends
So yeah, apparently the DoD spent $486 million for 20 Italian-made Aeritalia G.222 aircraft that had been retired from the Italian Air Force, then upgraded and refurbished them in the U.S. for the...
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How low can you go?
Taking a look at some extreme-low level passes throughout the past century or so. The tactic has been used throughout modern military aviation. While it is extremely dangerous, it can minimize the time...
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Idiots’ Delight
Click to big-up Color photograph of the B-17 Flying Fortress “Idiots’ Delight” of Eighth Air Force in England. The original caption states the M/Sgt is Penrose A. Bingham of Reading, Pennsylvania....
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The martial art of Romain Hugault
If you are a fan of modern aviation art, you know the work of Monsieur Romain Hugault. While a relative youngster (born in 1979) his work has gained international acclaim. The son of a military pilot,...
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Fixing to make PBR glow in the dark
In the ongoing Southern Strike series of exercises (now in its 15th installment) some 52 units are duking it out over the Gulf conducting a three way fight between some very interesting opponents....
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Nomad 3521, coming home
The Jack Northrop-designed A-17A was a pre-WWII development of the old Northrop Gamma. Some 411 of the attack planes were produced, each armed with five light machine guns and up to 1200-lbs of bombs...
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