During WW2, a covert mission saw Soviet pilots flying British Hurricanes in deadly Arctic dogfights. When one pilot rammed a German bomber mid-air and survived the crash alone behind enemy lines, the ...

During World War II, Soviet Pilots Loved This American Warplane. ... The oxygen equipment was reliable, although the mask was quite small, ...

Volodymyr Bilevich served in the Soviet and Russian air forces. But when Russia invaded Ukraine, the retired pilot launched a one-man campaign against the war. RFE/RL's Russian Service accompanied ...

Step inside the legendary P-51 Mustang cockpit for an exclusive WW2 pilot’s view! In this detailed walkthrough, explore the controls, instruments, and cramped space that fighter pilots had to ...

A Delta Air Lines plane forced to double back and make an emergency landing was filled with such thick smoke that pilots needed to wear oxygen masks, a preliminary report by the National ...

Nadezhda Popova, a Soviet aviator who became one of the most celebrated of the so-called “Night Witches,” female military pilots who terrorized the Nazi enemy with their nocturnal air raids ...

Retropolis Fierce, feared and female: The WWII pilots known as the ‘Night Witches’ Their planes were rickety crop-dusters, but the Soviet women turned them into killing machines.

Soviet war hero Alexei Maresyev, a fighter pilot who lost the lower parts of both legs in World War II and then returned to combat, died Friday, minutes before an early celebration to mark his ...

NIGHT WITCHES, a new play following the true story of the first all-female Soviet combat pilots of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment will be performed at The Hylton Performing Arts Center on ...

It was the spring of 1943, at the height of World War II. Two pilots, members of the Soviet Air Force, were flying their planes—Polikarpov Po-2 biplanes, built mainly of plywood and canvas ...

The word got out — the National World War II Museum shipped an oxygen mask for detail, and other elements including rafts, ripcords.” The finished sculpture is a three-dimensional rendering in ...

The Eastern Front was the decisive theater of World War II in Europe. German premier Adolf Hitler’s disastrous 1941 order to invade the vast Soviet Union mired Nazi Germany in a bloody, grinding ...