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All, The other day a few folks at work were discussing the use of WW II produced aircraft after the end of WW II, and the combat records of some of them in the early days of jets. That leads to a question, what was the last WW II produced aircraft that was lost in combat? I mean aircraft...

Last weekend we had a gathering of Pitts Specials at the local airfield, and among them was this example: It's an ex-Royal Jordanian Air Force 'Falcons' aircraft, one of three that are somewhere in the world (they did have five, but the story that I heard form an ex-owner of this one was that...

Lately I've been having a problem with posting, in that while I'm typing an answer, or such, for some reason I become un-logged in.....or something. I mean, I come to the site, log in, go to any threads I want to post in, and somewhere during that time I seem to be getting logged out without...

To all my very dear friends on this forum. I deeply miss all of you especially on this Memorial Day when I look back and see all my dead brothers in arms. Since I stopped posting I have lost my last two childhood friends and fellow Vietnam vets. So first to my close friend Joseph B, my...

What was the british bomber lost in end of april/ beginning of may 1943 off Leba, Pommern, Baltic Sea? The plane was involved in mining operation on Baltic Sea.After shut down by Germans, they try to salvage the bomber, but one of the the mine that was still inside the plane exploded and sank...

https://books.google.com/books?id=0TchAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124&dq=luftwaffe+losses+balkans+1941&source=bl&ots=E4dS6IqpYU&sig=oF2IrCT9nVb96HfZ8tJQAk_vTFM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4RDdVMvGH4iuyQTsrIDADw&ved=0CEgQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=luftwaffe%20losses%20balkans%201941&f=false David Stahel's book on...

I have an odd question that has come up in conversations with several other people and I wanted to run it by you guys. If a military plane was destroyed on the ground during Pearl Harbor, would that aircraft be considered as having been lost or destroyed during combat?

In early 1942, IJN's Kido Butai attacked and scored substantial aerial victories over two defended island bases: Ceylon and Midway Island. The former much larger land mass, involved two different mass raids on two geographically separated targets with associated air battles between escorting...

Hello, I recently stumbled over this topic: DVL data on Bf 109 roll rates about an DVL evaluation on the Bf 109's "Rollwendigkeit". Unfortunately the provided links are down, and such treasure is lost. Is it possible that someone have saved those data? From Runio's Article...