The Battle of the Coral Sea was the first of the five great naval aircraft carrier battles of the Pacific War. It was the first naval battle where neither opposing fleet came within sight of the other. It was the first time USN wildcat fighters met the Imperial Japanese Navy’s (IJ…
The Battle of the Coral Sea was the first of the five great naval aircraft carrier battles of the Pacific War. It was the first naval battle where neither opposing fleet came within sight of the other. It was the first time USN wildcat fight…
Could Yamato even win against ONE Iowa? For Yamato she got her massive 18inch gun as one of her advantage, while not exactly an advantage in terms of armor penetration (as the US 16inch with their super heavy shells are no slouch in that depart…
HMS Invincible In WW1 the capital ships of a navy comprised its battleships and battlecruisers. At the Battle of Jutland the Royal Navy lost fourteen ships out of the one hundred and fifty-one deployed or 9%. Of these losses, three (Indefatigable, I…
At the time of its flight the P-80 demonstrated good performance yet had several flaws. The available jet engine technology of that era did not support any better performance standards. With swept wings attached to the P-80 the aircraft would have a…
When the 757 was built, it had the lowest cost to operate per available seat mile of any plane built. It also had very high thrust to weight ratio and eight wheels with brakes making it an excellent airplane for airports with short runways or high d…
I’d have to give ‘last German holdouts’ prize to the 11 men in the weather forecast unit under the command of lieutenant Wilhelm Dege stranded at a weather station on the Norwegian island of Nordausandet (near Spitsbergen), in the arctic. They had b…
Gabby Gabreski, one of the top American fighter aces in Europe during World War II, had a unique way of flying. He was known for flying incredibly low to the ground, sometimes so low that he could look out of his cockpit and see himself eye-to-eye w…
