I'M A FAN of the Confederate Air Force. Begun by Lloyd Nolen, a World War II flight instructor who purchased a Curtiss P-40 Varhawk in 1951, by 1993 it would have 137 antique aircraft of which 100 are in flying condition at all times.Childress, William...
It was sent by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini as a tribute to the first transatlantic crossing flight of 24 11-ton seaplanes from Rome to Chicago led by Italo Balbo, an Italian air force marshal that helped bring Mussolini and other fascists to power in 1922. What's more controversial is...
When the opening salvo of Operation Moked was planned, the air force’s operations department made sure to shift the flight paths of planes taking off from the Ramat David air base in the north away from the shortest and most convenient route along the Mediterranean coast, so the planes would...