This Luxurious Morane Saulnier MS-760 Was Owned By the Shah of Iran, Could Now Be Yours
26 Nov 2022, 06:27 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The price for the wonderful flying piece of French history? It's actually fairly competitive compared to similar off-the-shelf new private jets of its size.
This Classic Douglas AD-5 Skyraider Was the Warthog of the Cold War, Now for Sale
24 Nov 2022, 04:16 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With trips to museum exhibits in Florida, Virginia, Texas, Louisiana, and Missouri, the AD-5 might as well have a frequent flyer miles credit card
Ikarus S-49: Yugoslavia's Answer to the Spitfire and the P-51 Mustang
23 Nov 2022, 17:59 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / After the Tito-Stalin split of 1948 especially, the S-49 project was a matter of the utmost importance inside Yugoslavia.
Lavochkin La-15: The MiG 15's Long Forgotten Step Sibling Came Back to Life in War Thunder
24 Oct 2022, 21:38 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / From 1953 on, the La-15 faded into obscurity. With only a handful of surviving airframes parked in museums across the former Soviet Union.
The Mitsubishi A6M Zero Was Slain by the Hellcat, This Survivor's Got an American Engine
18 Oct 2022, 19:23 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Of the 10,000 A6Ms Mitsubishi manufactured, between 25 and 40 numbers-matching airframes are known to survive, and just two originals are airworthy
This Hawker Sea Fury Fighter Plane Traded Autocannons For Racing Decals
15 Oct 2022, 03:22 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Powering this sleek beast is a Wright R-3350 Duplex Cyclone 18-cylinder radial engine similar to the one found with the Boeing B-29 Superfortress.
This 1929 Buhl Air Sedan Was an Executive Airplane for Packard, Now it's for Sale
14 Oct 2022, 01:42 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This particular Air Sedan, serial code NC-8451, was manufactured in November 1929 at Buhl's Marysville, Michigan, assembly plant. It was then sold to Packard
This Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk Was Pulled From the Jungles of Papua New Guinea, Now Restored
13 Oct 2022, 00:41 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Most Second World War military planes still kicking around have an amazing story to tell. But this P-40 N Kittyhawk has one that rivals the best.
The Northrop F-5 Never Flexed Its Muscles With the USAF, Now This One's For Sale
10 Oct 2022, 19:22 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Produced from 1959 until at least the early 70s, the F-5A was a different breed of fighter. One that valued light weight and maneuverability over raw power
Douglas DC-7: A Landmark Piston Engine Airliner Defined By One Tragic Incident
7 Oct 2022, 18:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The DC-7 is currently the only classic Douglas airliner that isn't still flying to this very day. Knowing its bad omen it's understandable.
This 1944 Piper L4B Grasshopper is an Unsung War Hero, Now It's For Sale
2 Oct 2022, 17:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / While Mustangs and Thunderbolts protected them from enemy fighters, Grasshoppers, based on the civilian Piper Cub, surveyed battlefields, and transported VIPs.
Fieseler Fi 156 Storch: A German STOL Warplane With V8 Power, Rommel's Favorite Plane
27 Sep 2022, 21:38 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / On the face of it, the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch looked like the most pathetic pipsqueak of a warplane. But know both Rommel and Hermann Göring happily sat in one.
Curtiss OX-5 V8: A Deep Dive Into America's First Great Airplane Engine
26 Sep 2022, 22:11 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In many ways, the Curtiss OX-5 V8 was the finest creation to ever leave Hammondsport, New York native Glenn H. Curtiss's factory. It certainly made him famous
Will This 1952 Polikarpov PO-2 Do Any Better Under Capitalism?
27 Mar 2022, 18:18 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / By the year 2022, enough time has passed that a handful of Ex-Soviet PO-2 biplanes have found their way over to western soil.
Clapped Out F-86F Sabre Jet Fighter is a Certified Barn Find With Wings
22 Mar 2022, 23:16 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This particular example of perhaps the most famous early Cold War fighter jet left its Inglewood, California factory on April 22nd, 1953
Hiller Flying Platform: Personal Hover Transportation or Elaborate Meat Grinder?
15 Jan 2022, 19:06 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Sure enough, a full-sized lander trainer was constructed using the same principle as Hiller's Flying Platform. It even almost killed Neil Armstrong to boot
This Might Be the Most Enthusiastic Review That You Will See All Week
7 Jan 2022, 13:49 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / While not the most helpful review if you are looking for a new vehicle, this will be entertaining. That may make it worth watching more than anything else
This is a Suit Bomber Pilots in World War II Actually Flew Wearing
1 Dec 2021, 22:06 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Having to be consistently connected to 1940s power outlets in rickety aluminum-skinned bombers must not have been much fun
This Awesome War Exhibit is Part Albatross Sea-Plane, Part B-17 Bomber
28 Nov 2021, 21:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Believe it or not, the first thing that strikes you when you take your first step into the crew compartment isn't how it look, but how it smells.
Up-Close and Personal With the Two Most Famous Engines of World War II
28 Nov 2021, 16:52 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Of any two engines on display, there's just no beating the name recognition of the Rolls-Royce Merlin liquid-cooled V12 and the Pratt & Whitney R-2800