Flying_Aviation
Flight Journal
ELLIPTICAL ELEGANCE
Flying and evaluating the Seafire Mark III
4 min |
November - December 2025
Flight Journal
IRON DOG
Fighting the Pacific and the P-39 at the same time
10+ min |
November - December 2025
Flight Journal
Fighter Pilots: A Warrior Clan
TAKE A HARD LOOK at the two young men in these photos. Do they look as if they were bent on killing one another? On the left we have a young, unknown enlisted Japanese pilot standing in front of a Nakajima Ki-27 \"Nate,\" one of Japan's earliest monoplanes that led to the much vaunted Zero.
3 min |
November - December 2025
Flight Journal
KEN WALSH THE FIRST CORSAIR ACE
Medal of Honor pilot's combat adventures
10+ min |
November - December 2025
Flight Journal
Big Chief's Little Chief
Thunderbolt action with the Wolf Pack
10+ min |
November - December 2025
Flight Journal
ENEMY PILOTS SPEAK Voices from the other side
All too often American students of air warfare forget that enemy aircraftwhether Messerschmitts or MiGs-were flown by human beings with the same motivations and traits as Allied airmen. More often than not, the only difference between friend and foe was the paint on the airplane and where they landed. Therefore, we've assembled a variety of accounts from WW II Axis fighter pilots, men who were more than simply targets.
10+ min |
November - December 2025
Flight Journal
FLYING THE FW 190
A legend gets checked out in the Butcher Bird
10+ min |
November - December 2025
Flight Journal
DOUBLE-THEATER ACE
The fearless missions of legendary fighter pilot Col. John D. Landers
10+ min |
November - December 2025
Flight Journal
WARBUG IN THE PACIFIC
Surviving combat in a Stinson OY-1/L-5
10 min |
September - October 2025
Flight Journal
WINGS OF THE FLEET
Celebrating the U.S. Navy's 250-year legacy
9 min |
September - October 2025
Flight Journal
THEIR FINEST HOUR
85 summers ago, the British Royal Air Force and Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe fought the world's first great air campaign
7 min |
September - October 2025
Flight Journal
Warbirds & more at Innovations in Flight
SEVEN P-51S AND THE B-29 “DOC” were among the warbirds that flew in for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's “Innovations in Flight” day on June 14 at the Steven F.
2 min |
September - October 2025
Flight Journal
MALTA SPITFIRE
American fighter ace Claude Weaver III DFC DFM
10+ min |
September - October 2025
Flight Journal
Pacemaker: Bellanca's 1929 Heavy Hauler
North Country workhorse
2 min |
September - October 2025
Flight Journal
A TALL ORDER
The final flights of “Philippine Mars”– the last airworthy Martin JRM Mars flying boat
10+ min |
September - October 2025
Flight Journal
Mohawk vs. MiG
An unusual air battle over North Vietnam
7 min |
July - August 2025
Flight Journal
GOING FOR IT!
A-4 Skyhawks strike hard in the Tet Offensive
10+ min |
July - August 2025
Flight Journal
ZORRO STRIKES
The T-28's secret war in Southeast Asia
10+ min |
July - August 2025
Flight Journal
SEAWOLVE UNLEASHEE
Attack of the Navy's little-known Hueys
9 min |
July - August 2025
Flight Journal
“It’s Showtime!” Fighting Falcons F-4J
A CARRIER FLIGHT DECK is a crowded, noisy, dangerous place. There, the young deck crew of the USS Constellation works furiously to prepare “Showtime 105”—an F-4J Phantom of the famous Fighting Falcons, VF-96-for yet another mission over North Vietnam.
1 min |
July - August 2025
Flight Journal
THE FEAR OF THE AIR FORCE’S WRATH
THIS POSSIBLE VENGEANCE had dogged the Mohawk for 14 years, ever since the Army decided in 1956 to create the first designed-for-the-purpose “battlefield reconnaissance” aircraft since the North American 0-47 had flown in 1937.
2 min |
July - August 2025
Flight Journal
Search- and-Rescue Superstar
A-7D SLUF
1 min |
July - August 2025
Flight Journal
UH-1 Iroquois “Huey”
Enduring Vietnam workhorse
1 min |
July - August 2025
Flight Journal
BLACKBIRD IN TROUBLE
At Mach 3, all emergencies are serious
10+ min |
July - August 2025
Flight Journal
WOLFPACK ASSASSIN
Confessions of a MiG killer
10+ min |
July - August 2025
Flight Journal
BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE
A Misty pilot recounts a mission of utmost courage
6 min |
July - August 2025
Flight Journal
GUNFIGHT!
Skyraiders down a MiG-17
10+ min |
July - August 2025
Flight Journal
TREETOP WARFARE
A Bird Dog FAC in Raven territory
10+ min |
July - August 2025
Flight Journal
ROYAL NAVY WILDCATS
Grumman's carrier-based fighter excels in His Majesty's Service
10+ min |
May - June 2025
Flight Journal
TALES OF THE 21
Lethal Cold War icon
10+ min |