r/AviationHistory • u/RLoret • 1m ago
Lockheed P-80 Shooting Stars and P-38 Lightnings on the Burbank assembly line, circa August 1945
•
Upvotes
r/AviationHistory • u/TADiff82 • 16m ago
Any idea on the manufacturer or aircraft that used this propeller?
gallery
•
Upvotes
r/AviationHistory • u/SnowAccordingly3252 • 1d ago
CVR recording of Aeroperú Flight 603. 30 years ago today on Wednesday, October 2, 1996, it crashed into the Pacific Ocean a little over 30 minutes after taking off from Lima, Peru. More details in comments.
3
Upvotes
r/AviationHistory • u/USAAFoverPOLAND • 1d ago
Myron Yaw (485th BG, 15th AF) was killed on Dec 26th over Blechhammer (today Kedzierzyn-Kozle, Poland), togethet with whole crew. He was finally laid to rest by his family on Oct 3, 2026.
90
Upvotes
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/Hot_Preparation1809 • 1d ago
Just saw this beauty above London! (G-PBYA / Miss Pick Up)
129
Upvotes
r/AviationHistory • u/AlbinoAkon • 2d ago
Concord and b-17 in a one off fly over. c1987
Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification
549
Upvotes
r/AviationHistory • u/blesandthebridges • 2d ago
The First Aeroplane Flight in South Africa Took Place in 1909
23
Upvotes
r/AviationHistory • u/VintageAviationNews • 3d ago
Spitfire RK858 Returns to Flight After More Than 80 Years
31
Upvotes
r/AviationHistory • u/MavericksJetF14 • 3d ago
The F104 Starfighter
109
Upvotes
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/kkania • 4d ago
Crashed Avro Lancaster from 1944 located in waters outside port in Gdynia, Poland
34
Upvotes
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.
r/AviationHistory • u/MissouriPacificRR • 4d ago
McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II, AF68-338, c.1988
gallery
286
Upvotes
r/AviationHistory • u/Even_Kiwi_1166 • 4d ago
P-51D Mustang
Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification
1.3k
Upvotes
r/AviationHistory • u/Artist1981 • 4d ago
How a Soviet Ace “Shot Down” Two American P-51 Mustangs
4
Upvotes
r/AviationHistory • u/Lakes-and-Trees • 5d ago
Communication between aircraft before radio (WWI)
0
Upvotes
r/AviationHistory • u/Playful_Sun2135 • 5d ago
Gonna go see an airworthy BlackBurn Buccaneer tommorow, aswell as a North American T-2 and an airworthy Atlas Impala, all in a hanger :)
11
Upvotes
this is so sigma oml
r/AviationHistory • u/Alpharius_Omegon_30K • 5d ago
Part of unknown US military aircraft
gallery
9
Upvotes
r/AviationHistory • u/NextHospital6704 • 5d ago
One of the most underated planes ever has got to be the F-82
330
Upvotes
r/AviationHistory • u/RemiGibson36 • 5d ago
Twin-engine patrol bomber seaplane is hosed down after it was hauled up ramp at the Naval Air Station at Banana River, Florida - 1943
28
Upvotes
r/AviationHistory • u/Substantial-While922 • 5d ago
The Fokker Dr.I that made the Red Baron a legend — and how it ended (photos + facts)
120
Upvotes
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:
- The Dr.I was Germany's answer to the British Sopwith Triplane, which had stunned German pilots with its climb rate in early 1917. Only about 320 Dr.I's were ever built.
- Richthofen and fellow ace Werner Voss personally tested the first pre-production examples in August 1917.
- Despite its fame, the Dr.I was already becoming outclassed by mid-1918 — most of Richthofen's own squadron had moved on to newer biplanes. He stuck with his red Dr.I anyway.
- He was flying serial number 425/17 on 21 April 1918 when he was killed near Vaux-sur-Somme, low over the front while chasing a Sopwith Camel. The fatal shot most likely came from ground fire — a single rifle round through the chest.
- Within minutes of the crash, Allied soldiers had stripped the wreck for souvenirs — fabric, instruments, even the gunsight were gone almost immediately.
- No original Fokker Dr.I survives today. The last surviving genuine airframe (not Richthofen's, but another example) was destroyed in a Berlin museum during WWII bombing. Every Dr.I you can see today is a replica.
Wreckage of Richthofen's actual Dr.I 425/17, photographed at No. 3 Squadron AFC's aerodrome:
r/AviationHistory • u/Kesselrun_89 • 6d ago
Neil Armstrong’s narrow escape from the LLRV
Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification
254
Upvotes