pilots

Does anyone have a definitive list of all the Japanese pilots and crewmen who flew during the attack on Pearl Harbor? I'm interested in gathering a list and then tracking what happened to them during the course of the war, to see how the attrition of Midway and the other battles of 1942 played...

This rates a wow! View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJHlXe_RnYo

I was re-reading Shattered Sword, about the battle of Midway, and started to think about how much more bang-for-the-buck the first team of US naval aviators gave compared to later pilots. In the Battle of Midway, for example, three squadrons of pre-war trained SBD pilots sunk 3 carriers in one...

Did pilots serve in different aircraft during the war?

Marek Stefanicki, Polish Air Force reenactor and grandson of a Polish WWII airman, describes the features of a Polish pilot's Battle of Britain uniform. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZuMX5AB76o

User Name: fubar57 Name: George Category: Advanced Kit: Tamiya Accessories: None Pilots, including William H. McKenzie and Everett L. Baudoux, pose with a Gloster Meteor s/n EE311 at Ottawa, October 1945. Not sure if Jack Robert Ritch, the subject of my other 26GB is the third person in...

Attached are the Pilots Notes for the Boulton-Paul Defiant II AP1592B PN dated Aug 1941 and heavily amended, complements of John Dell

Anupam Verma has a certificate that shows he has flown an aircraft for 360 hours. He says he got it after sitting in the co-pilot’s seat for just 35 minutes. He’s one of dozens of pilots in the country who obtained certificates showing inflated flying hours and ground training, according to...

<iframe class="ilg_video_embed" src="http://www.ilgiornale.it/video_embed/1135157.html?ratio=640" width="640" height="640" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> Abruzzo, scontro fra 2 aerei pattuglia acrobatica - IlGiornale.it Unfortunately one of the two pilots died, the other is in...

My wonderful wife surprised the heck out of me for my birthday on Saturady and got me an hour and a half flight lesson. I was impressed before with WWII pilots (and pilots in general) but after experiencing it for myself that amount is 100 fold! I did pretty well for my first time...

Hi, I haven't been to the site in awhile so bear with me for asking these two questions. First, what did the duty uniforms of the AVG look like? Second, when the pilots manned their P-40s, did they wear the typical one piece flight suits with flight jackets exclusively or did they usually fly in...

Time and time again we see this most important single factor in the performance of any aircraft ignored in discussions. Everyone knows that a Spitfire I can out turn a Bf 109 E and that the Messerschmitt pilot would be ill advised to fight in the horizontal, right? Well, for the two...

Memories of a WWII Hero: Captain Brown's Story 2014 NR 52m Average rating: 4.021 Average of 7,205 ratings: 4 stars One of history's greatest test pilots, Capt. Eric "Winkle" Brown recounts his many adventures flying dangerous aircraft and setting aviation records.

Harlingen TX no info There were 15 B-17's named "Pistol Packin' Mama"

Does anyone have a copy of this book? There may (or may not) be a reference in there to a couple of 357th pilots having jumped a Mosquito. I don't know for sure if the info is there. The author, Joey Maddox, later wrote another book, "The Great Rat Race for Europe", in which he mentions the...

Hello all :) Here is my new video on the group french navy pilots View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygk5Su-Lb2U I wish you a good flight and a good weekend :)

The following link shows a complete and extensive reporting a collection of photos, some known and others, rare and dramatic, about this iconic group of pilots who flew and fought in WW2: Aviação em Floripa Hope you enjoy and I count on your visit!

My father, William "Bill" MacMonagle, joined the Canadian RCAF in 1941 with many other American volunteers who wanted to learn to fly and also to fight in WW2. My brother and I are interested in locating surviving volunteers who trained in Canada (Windsor, Picton Ontario, etc) in the hope of...