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Boscombe Down Incident: Top Secret Plane Crash or Urban Legend?
(Image: Jonathan Billinger, cc-sa-4.0) It’s one of the most intriguing tales of modern British aviation history. On September 26, 1994 a mysterious aircraft allegedly crashed at MoD Boscombe Down in...
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Raptor 4001: The Gutted Shell of the World’s First Fifth Generation Stealth...
(Image: via Thomas Wharton/F-16.net) Gaunt, empty and plundered of all usable parts, it’s hard to imagine that this eviscerated shell represents the most sophisticated air superiority stealth fighter...
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Wendover, Utah: This Stripped-out C-123 Aircraft was Used in the 1997 Movie...
(All images (unless stated otherwise) by Michael Martin) A veteran of the 1997 movie Con Air, this gutted C-123 Provider aircraft permanently resides at Historic Wendover Airfield in Wendover, Utah....
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Crashed Military Jet Abandoned in the New Jersey Woods for Over 50 Years
(All images courtesy of Daniel Berek) Abandoned in a forest in New Jersey is the wreck of a Lockheed T2V-1 SeaStar aircraft. Lying in woods just 50 miles from Manhattan, its location is surprisingly...
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Check Out the F-117 Cockpit Procedures Trainer in Alamogordo, NM
(Image: John Bezosky Jr. – Twitter @jbezosky) F-117A Nighthawk (or Stinkbug to some) training was unlike normal military fast jet training for a variety of reasons. For one thing, the Stealth Fighter...
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Fake Facadism: World War Two Hangar Disguised as Bombed-Out Houses
(Image: via DesertBlooms – © IWM CL 3981) During times of war, protecting valuable military equipment from enemy attack is imperative – especially when it’s parked on a makeshift airfield and...
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Visit the Crash Site of an Argentine A-4 Skyhawk Combat Jet on West Falkland
(Image: Matt and Sarah Faulds) At the height of the Falklands War of April to June 1982, a number of British and Argentine combat jets crashed to earth during tense operations over the Malvinas. The...
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Tornado F2 ZA267: Rare Surviving Prototype of the RAF’s Air Defence Variant
(Image: Andy Purbrick via Fighter Control) The Panavia Tornado F2, the interim version of the Tornado Air Defence Variant (ADV), was plagued with problems when it entered RAF service in the 1980s....
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8 Aircraft Wrecks & Crash Sites of the Falklands War
(Image: Chris Harris, cc-nc-sa-4.0) The Falklands War of 1982 may have been a short-lived conflict fought in a remote corner of the globe, but that’s not to minimise the courage and sacrifice of those...
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This TAV-8A Must be One of the Oldest Harriers in the Boneyard
(Image: Clemens Vasters, cc-4.0) The United States Marine Corps still flies the venerable AV-8B Harrier II, though a number of retired airframes have found their way into the Boneyard at Davis-Monthan...
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Al Asad Airfield: Uncovering Iraq’s Hidden Combat Jets
(Image: via GlobalSecurity.org) When Australian special forces soldiers captured Iraq’s Al Asad Airfield in April 2003, they discovered – and in some cases uncovered – more than 50 combat aircraft...
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Ämari Pilots’ Cemetery: The Woodland Graves of Deceased Soviet Flyers
(Image: Modris Putns, cc-sa-3.0) In September 2010 the 9,000-foot runway at Ämari Air Base in Estonia was relaid in a bid to transition the former Warsaw Pact airfield to NATO use. But echoes of its...
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Northrop’s ‘Advanced Manned Concept': Do Patents Hold Clues to Top Secret...
(Image: via Google Patents) The world of top secret aircraft – also known as black projects – is as intriguing as it is shadowy. For decades myriad highly classified planes and other technologies have...
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The Abandoned, Battered English Electric Lightning Hulks of Foulness Island
(All images by Alan Allen) The town of Shoeburyness in southeast England, at the mouth of the Thames Estuary, is an intriguing settlement steeped in history. Ostensibly a traditional seaside...
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RAF Kirknewton: An Austere Airfield Survivor of World War Two
(Image: Alasdair Preston) A handful of historic airfields survive throughout the Lothians, not least RAF Turnhouse, which later became Edinburgh International Airport, and the old Fighter Command...
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12 Abandoned, Wrecked & Recovered Aircraft of World War Two
(Image: Ruuhinen) When World War Two came to an end, thousands of tired fighter, bomber, transport and training aircraft – many of them less than a year old – were stockpiled in massive aircraft...
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Spitfire P9374: Restored Fighter Shot Down Over Dunkirk Could Fetch £2.5...
(Image: Tony Smith; Spitfire P9374 restored) A rare Supermarine Spitfire is poised to go under the hammer later this summer in a landmark sale which could see the iconic British fighter plane sell for...
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This Beautifully Restored Hawker Hurricane Replica was Built for 1969 Battle...
(Image: Phillip Capper) Movie production for the epic 1969 war film Battle of Britain saw some 100 period aircraft assembled in what was dubbed the ’35th largest air force in the world’. Twenty-seven...
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R4118: The Remarkable Story of the Battle of Britain’s Last Flying Hurricane
(Image: Adrian Pingstone; Hurricane R4118 flies again) This week, in the run-up to VE Day, we’ve featured several historic wartime aircraft, from restored Spitfire Mk.1a P9374 to a full-scale Hawker...
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The Lonely Crash Site of Vampire VZ106 in the Brecon Beacons, Wales
(All images by BreaconImages.co.uk via Flickr) Lying thoroughly destroyed amid the wild landscape of the Brecon Beacons, the torn, twisted wreckage of Vampire VZ106 still forms of the basic shape of...
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