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The P-47 certainly made its mark, but it isn’t so well remembered that one example was the fastest piston engine fighter ever built – the XP-47J. Continue reading →

The Boeing B-47 Stratojet (Boeing company designation Model 450) is a retired American long-range, six-engined, turbojet-powered strategic bomber designed to fly at high subsonic speed and at high altitude to avoid enemy interceptor aircraft. The primary mission of the B-47 was as a nuclear bomber capable of striking targets within the Soviet Union. Continue reading →

Alauda Aeronautics recently unveiled the Airspeeder Mk4, the first crewed version of its flying racing car. Designed and built in Adelaide, South Australia, the Airspeeder Mk4 is the world’s fastest hydrogen electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Continue reading →

By 1943, the Pacific Theater was in full swing, with the Allies forcefully attempting to take over the prized islands occupied by the relentless Japanese Empire. Using the obtained experience during the war and learning from their mistakes, the Japanese Air Force officials sought to build one last aircraft that could help them turn the tide of the war in their favour.

Enter the Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate. Continue reading →

On the evening of 23rd June 1944, Flying Officer Kenneth Collier destroyed a V-1 flying bomb (850kg explosive warhead) by physically ‘tipping’ it with his wingtip. Continue reading →

The Bell X-2 (nicknamed “Starbuster”) was an X-plane research aircraft built to investigate flight characteristics in the Mach 2–3 range. The X-2 was a rocket-powered, swept-wing research aircraft developed jointly in 1945 by Bell Aircraft Corporation, the United States Air Force and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to explore aerodynamic problems of supersonic flight and to expand the speed and altitude regimes obtained with the earlier X-1 series of research aircraft. Continue reading →