One Decade Ago, Canada Almost Revived the Legendary Avro Arrow, But Not Really
23 Feb 2023, 02:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Perhaps the fact the Avro Arrow never got to shoot down a Russian bomber was the key factor that led to its romanticization with the Canadian public
Tupolev Tu-116: A Soviet Luxury VIP Airliner That Started Life as a Nuclear Bomber
21 Feb 2023, 00:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Seriously? An airliner fashioned out of the same airframe as a nuclear-capable bomber? That's the most Soviet thing we've heard in a long time
I Bought a War Thunder Premium Jet for the First Time, It Changed My Whole Experience
14 Feb 2023, 20:33 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you want to work your way up War Thunder's tech tiers at a non-geological time scale, there's a not-so-cheap but effective way to do it, premium vehicles.
Boeing YC-14: Proof That Old School Boeing Succeeded Even When They Failed
10 Feb 2023, 18:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In truth, the YC-14 was designed to supplement and one day replace the vast U.S. vast of C-130 Hercules cargo planes if you could believe it.
This Man Was the Warbird Whisperer, Tested the "Quirks and Features" of Over 400 Planes
4 Feb 2023, 19:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This is the story of Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown, the Guinness Book of Records holder for testing more airplanes than anyone else in history.
de Havilland Hornet: Like an E-Type Jag With Wings, The Perfect Twin-Engine Piston Fighter
4 Feb 2023, 01:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Sadly, not a single land-based Hornet survives intact today. At least one Sea Hornet was in the process of being restored in New Zealand as of 2017.
Blackburn Beverly: Proof America Built Better Cold War Cargo Planes Than the British
3 Feb 2023, 06:15 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Aviation junkies who know the story of the Blackburn Beverly decried that comparing it to the C-130 Hercules was unfair. But the math doesn't lie
Aero L-159 ALCA: A Millionaire's Toy Fighter Equipped Like a Legit Attack Jet
28 Jan 2023, 19:10 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The L-159 is an airplane developed at a pivotal time in Czechoslovakian history. A time in which the country needed decide to split up or remain intact.
Mitsubishi F-4 EJ Kai: The American Phantom II Jet Powered Up Like an Anime Hero
25 Jan 2023, 07:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The F-4EJ and its ultimate variant, the EJ Kai, aren't hard to draw parallels between themselves and anime heroes. It defended its home nation like one
Rockwell XFV-12: Proof the British Build Better VTOL Jets Than the Yanks
19 Jan 2023, 19:40 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The XFV-12's unfortunate story begins in the year 1972. By that stage, the British Harrier had already been in service for three years, debuting in April 1969.
Avia S-92: Germany's First Jet Fighter Reborn in Czechoslovakia
16 Jan 2023, 23:38 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Me-262 may have been conceived as a Nazi wonder weapon, but its history after the fall of the Third Reich is less cut-and-dry
MiG-21 LanceR: Forged By the Soviets, Now Flying for NATO
11 Jan 2023, 23:49 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Though routinely overshadowed by more prominent Air Forces in Western Europe, Romania is home to one of the most historic and deeply rooted aviation programs.
30 Years Before Boom, Sukhoi and Gulfstream Nearly Built a Mach 2 Capable Business Jet
2 Jan 2023, 18:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In an era where collaboration between Russia and the U.S. of any kind sounds preposterous, the Sukhoi-Gulfstream S-21 proved otherwise
Arsenal VB 10: The Forgotten Twin-Engine French Superprop Revived by War Thunder
31 Dec 2022, 18:48 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With six M2 Browning Machine Guns on tap atop the four Hispano-Suiza 20 mm autocannons of the VB 10C-1, the VB-10-02 is an all-around excellent fighter
Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces - A Fun Prop-Fighter Nintendo Game Powered by Ace Combat
30 Dec 2022, 06:03 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Released for the Nintendo Wii in Japan in October 2008, the game is a direct prequel to the anime adaptation of Hiroshi Mori's The Sky Crawlers series of novels
Russia Built This Forward-Wing-Sweep Jet Fighter Prototype In the Middle of Falling Apart
27 Dec 2022, 20:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / None of Russia's 1990's tomfoolery stopped Sukhoi engineers from building a forward-wing-sweep jet fighter prototype that actually ran and drove as advertised
Christmas Bullet: The Catastrophe of an Airplane That'll Make You Go Bah-Humbug.
24 Dec 2022, 18:13 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This is the story of the Christmas Bullet. An absolutely bonkers airplane with a body count that equals its production run
Convair NB-36: The Bonkers American Bomber With a Nuclear Reactor in its Belly
23 Dec 2022, 18:49 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The impetus for the NB-36's development is one rooted in the atomic era of the 1950s to late 1960s. A time where the U.S. went a bit nuts about nuclear power
Lockheed XV-4 Hummingbird: America's Failed VTOL Rival to the Original Harrier
11 Dec 2022, 12:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Coincidentally, the first production variants of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier would go into service only a month after the demise of the second XV-4
Replica 1997 Yakovlev Yak-9 Has WWII Charm With None Of the Drawbacks
8 Dec 2022, 13:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This being a Russian-made product built during the Yeltsin administration, gathering information about this particular airplane took more than a little digging