Recent reports that the U.S. Department of War is moving to contract a new generation of seaplanes for missions in the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Radar, twin .50 caliber guns in a ...

The United States created many famous and formidable warplanes in the second world war. These included the B-17 Flying Fortress, P-47 Thunderbolt, B-29 Superfortress and Corsair. While hardly obscure, ...

South African engineer Henri Johnson invented the world’s first Doppler radar speed gun specifically for ball tracking in ...

Dozens of WWII-era weapons and vehicles remain in active military service nearly 80 years after introduction. The M2 Browning heavy machine gun has been in continuous service since 1933 across global ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC. Today ...

Florida-based Catalina Aircraft, which holds type certificates for the PBY-5A Catalina with US and Canadian civil aviation regulators, has revealed plans to launch a modernized version of the iconic ...

Luke Diaz is a freelance military writer with experience with active duty experience in the US Navy as well as defense and industrial engineering. He is a former Naval Flight Officer who performed ...

The first episode of the drama series Masters of the Air holds a two-minute scene in which a B-17 crew runs the checklist for a very bumpy landing at Bluie West One, now Narsarsuaq Airport, in ...

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