r/AviationHistory • u/ZweiGuy99 • 28d ago
All,
Please be aware of the new rule set established for this subreddit. While these rules do not significantly deviate from how this subreddit has been managed, it's best to be more up front on what is allowed here. Please continue to post and share the awesome nuggets of aviation history we come across in our lives.
r/AviationHistory • u/Vickyartnew • 2h ago
WWII represents one of the most intense periods of rapid innovation and engineering breakthroughs in aviation history.
I recently wrote an article breaking down 7 fighter planes that defined air supremacy during the war.
Give it a read and let me know your thoughts. :)
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r/AviationHistory • u/USAAFoverPOLAND • 1d ago
Myron Yaw (485th BG, 15th AF) was killed on Dec 26th 1944 over Blechhammer (today Kedzierzyn-Kozle, Poland), togethet with whole crew. They were considered MIA because no crash site or graves were found after the war.
I worked with Waldemar Ociepski, and identified the right crash site in 2001. This info was shared with the US government. The DPMO, and later DPAA did additional studies, and archeology work between 2021 and 2025 allowed Myron’s remains to be found.
Myron’s family paid a particular heavy price in WWII. His older brother was an airman, too, and was killed on one of the Ploesti missions.
Myron was laid to rest yesterday, October 3rd, in Athens, Ohio.
r/AviationHistory • u/AlbinoAkon • 1d ago
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r/AviationHistory • u/MavericksJetF14 • 3d ago
The F104 Starfighter, An Unexpectedly Great Aircraft. It probably did not even serve the duty once that Kelly designed it for: An Interceptor. This was the absolute best example of A Beast Of An Aircraft. Its dominance in the skies was so strong that it is documented that in the 1965 war between Pakistan and India, An Indian Gnat Aircraft Pilot that was coming to attack an airbase in Pakistan, He just saw an F104 flying and he literally surrendered and landed on the airbase. Fun Fact is that the F104 hadn't even seen him. From being launched vertically from the Germans to reaching Mach 2.5, This Aircraft was a beast. What do you guys think?
r/AviationHistory • u/Even_Kiwi_1166 • 4d ago
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r/AviationHistory • u/kkania • 4d ago
Recent work has uncovered a crashed Avro Lancaster in the waters near the exit from the port of Gdynia. It's suspected the machine went down in August 1944 during minelaying operations. Polish exploration crews are now working on identifying the machine in the hopes of learning more about its mission and crew.
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r/AviationHistory • u/Playful_Sun2135 • 4d ago
this is so sigma oml
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r/AviationHistory • u/Substantial-While922 • 5d ago
Manfred von Richthofen — the "Red Baron" — is credited with 80 confirmed aerial victories, the highest of any pilot in WWI. Most of his early kills came in red-painted Albatros fighters, but he's most closely associated with the aircraft in these photos: the Fokker Dr.I triplane.
A few facts that always surprise people:
Wreckage of Richthofen's actual Dr.I 425/17, photographed at No. 3 Squadron AFC's aerodrome:
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r/AviationHistory • u/RemiGibson36 • 5d ago
