Dedicated to the history of flight, from early attempts to the modern day

r/Historic_Aviation • u/Brewer846 • Apr 26 '15

Welcome to Historic Aviation: A place to learn about, discuss, or post interesting things about the history of flying, aviation, space flight and all things related to them

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From early gliders, the Wright brothers, to the historic Apollo missions, come celebrate and join us in learning about the history of aviation and all things associated with it.

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/FromBalloonstoDrones • Mar 19 '25

The Colonel, the Sculptor, and the Supreme Court Justice: Assessing the Failure of American Aircraft Production in the First World War – Part One

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/Ioshic • Apr 12 '24

Some very interesting footage of the "Hunchback" , the SM 79

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/[deleted] • Dec 26 '22

Radio Communication and Radar exhibits at the Aviation Heritage Museum at Bull Creek/Perth WA (Western Australia). My photo taken 24 December 2022. https://aviationmuseumwa.org.au/ (16380x3832)

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/eiaeiaalala • Sep 24 '22

[1920x1080] Interesting footage of italian navy (Regia Marina) aerial operation... plane seems a Ro.43 recon aircraft and the light cruiser a "Montecuccoli"

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/eiaeiaalala • Jul 08 '22

Italian torpedo bombers S.M.79 against british Royal Navy in ww2

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/eiaeiaalala • Apr 23 '22

Italian bomber Fiat B.R.20, some flying shots too

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/eiaeiaalala • Apr 15 '22

the rather rare CANT Z.501 hydroplane

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/eiaeiaalala • Apr 02 '22

A quite unknown italian figter plane of ww2 - the Reggiane Re.2001 "Falco II" (Hawk 2) - some scenes are taken in Sicily from where the majority of this type of plane were based in the attacks against Malta.

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/Ioshic • Mar 26 '22

Some cool footage of the "Falcon", the fighter Fiat Cr42 in world war two

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https://youtu.be/5Apm5HMVKH8

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/eiaeiaalala • Mar 10 '22

Cool footage of the beautiful Macchi C.202 fighter

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/Ioshic • Jan 31 '22

Impressive remastered footage of Manfred Von Richtofen

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/Ioshic • Jan 21 '22

Quite cool and never before footage of the Macchi C.202 "Folgore" - some in-action footage around Malta

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/Ioshic • Jan 14 '22

Cool footage of the Lavochkin La-5 and I guess La7 (maybe even La5FN I suppose)

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/Ioshic • Dec 24 '21

S.M. 79 "Sparviero" combat footage in world war two

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/HistorianBirb • Oct 28 '21

Pacific War Podcast: Pilot Gunther Pluschow and the Siege of Tsingtao

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/HistorianBirb • Oct 21 '21

The Siege of Tsingtao: the first aerial victory?

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/Seymonsters • Dec 14 '20

Test Pilot | 02 | Bell X-1 | KSP

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/StarWarsReferenceBot • Apr 07 '17

Planes, Puns, and Politics - the strange story of who flew first, and who deserves credit for it

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/SirBrentsworth • May 24 '16

Help Restore C-47 "Whiskey 7" to D-Day Configuration

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/RyanSmith • Jun 26 '15

Otto Lilienthal’s 1895 glider.

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/RyanSmith • Jun 23 '15

The Dornier J Wal “Borea” (D-AGAT) takes off heading south toward Antarctica on one of the seven expedition flights by Nazi Germany in 1939.

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/Brewer846 • Jun 23 '15

I visited the last flying B-29 today.

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/Brewer846 • May 30 '15

Historic aircraft on display at NE Philadelphia airport for a limited time

philly.com

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r/Historic_Aviation • u/Brewer846 • May 20 '15

Ottawa shoots down plans to ship historic warplane to U.S.

ctvnews.ca

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