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2026 18

  1. Spitfire, Mustang and the ‘Meredith Effect’
  2. The Most Decisive Aircraft in History Was Not the Mustang
  3. A Secret History of the Harrier
  4. 10 Reasons the Fairey Fulmar was the F-14 Tomcat of World War II
  5. Rowland White Shares the Saga of the Mosquito in Britain’s Lost Race to Mach 1
  6. The Mosquito Origin Story
  7. An introduction to Mosquito Month from Al Murray
  8. Top 10 Torpedo Bombers of World War II
  9. The Future Fighter Dating Game
  10. Happy New Year! Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes Vol 2 update coming & what is going in Hush-Kit world
  11. 11 Airliners That Got ‘Drafted’ into Wild Military Roles
  12. Joe Coles
  13. Aviation book reviews
  14. The Tempest comes to your rescue!
  15. 10 Steel Marvels of Aviation
  16. The Theory, the Myths, and the Few Fighters That Truly Achieved True(ish) Laminar Flow
  17. Why Was This Obscure Plane The Greatest Fighter Aircraft of World War II? NEW VIDEO! Woo hoo!
  18. Top 10 Aircraft Beloved By Boring Bastards

2025 16

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  3. Did you order The Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes Vol 2 and/or Vol 3?
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  6. Reviewing two new V-bomber books
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  13. Sad news: Hush-Kit books cancelled by publisher
  14. F-35 versus Gripen E: A deep deep dive
  15. I buzzed Russian aircraft carrier at 50 feet until their weapons systems lit up my warning receivers
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2024 63

  1. Analysis of China’s new double-delta stealth warplane
  2. How to treat an F-16 fighter plane
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  6. Valiant Rocket Assisted Take Off at Farnborough 1956
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  8. Is the attack helicopter dead?
  9. RAF Jaguar Flight Safety Film
  10. MOSQUITO versus BEAUFIGHTER Round 1
  11. I flew the Big Sexy KC-10 super-tanker and I will miss it
  12. 10 Advanced Features of the World’s Most Impressive Piston-Engined Aeroplane, the Incredible Republic XF-12 Rainbow Spyplane
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  15. The smashed screen that crashed an empire
  16. Is one or two engines better in a fighter?
  17. Top 10 Dummy Decoy Aircraft
  18. Would the Airwolf helicopter have worked in real life? We got expert analysis
  19. AI paints some high points from the history of American aviation and the results are staggering in their photorealistic accuracy.
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  22. The case for the Focke-Wulf Ta 152H being the greatest fighter of the Second World War
  23. 10 things that sucked about the F-8 Crusader
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  25. I took the F-4 Phantom to War
  26. The case for the Westland Whirlwind being the greatest fighter of the Second World War
  27. Alternative Rock Records With Aircraft on the Cover
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  29. Everything you’ve been told about the ‘Chickenpox bomber’ is wrong, here’s why…
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  31. Bill Sweetman shares 10 ways GCAP can avoid the hell of the F-35 project with little or no effort
  32. I flew the best military platform ever built, here’s why I loved it
  33. Bill Sweetman
  34. Ron Smith
  35. 10 facts about the mad Mach 2.6 MiG ‘Flogger’ fighter aircraft
  36. How I designed a D-Day paint scheme for a £90 million Typhoon fighter aircraft
  37. Top 10 Most Dangerous Aircraft
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  40. 10 Romanian aircraft you need to know – and is the JF-17 really Romanian in origin?
  41. A former EW pilot shares the 10 best forms of jamming
  42. The Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes launches in North America
  43. ten best aircraft of World War II that failed to see service.
  44. £3-billion-pound 500-metre-tall Spitfire ‘cathedral’ to be opened in Southhampton in 2035
  45. 10 Most Boring Aircraft of World War II
  46. The Gloster Javelin jet fighter was not as terrible as people say, here’s why…
  47. Analysis of China’s new Apache-style attack helicopter
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  50. Turkey’s new Kaan stealth fighter aircraft versus the F-22 Raptor
  51. Book of Warplanes Vol 1 back in stock!
  52. undeniably spectacular
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  54. We take a look at the new SAAB supersonic killer drone
  55. Could the new British ‘Firefox’ drone design be a supersonic super-maneuverable hunter-killer?
  56. Top Cancelled Carrier Fighters
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  58. Help us take off
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  61. I flew the Harrier, Andover, Alpha Jet and 747
  62. Focke-Wulf Fw 200 in 13 questions
  63. The 10 most beautiful Indian aircraft

2023 62

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  4. Interview with Northrop F-20 test pilot Tigershark pilot Paul Metz
  5. Fascinating documentary on the Short SC. 1 VTOL Experimental Aircraft
  6. Why the new B-21 Raider stealth bomber looks the way it does
  7. An Utterly Uncivil Guide to Cancelled British Airliners
  8. THE TOP TEN SPITFIRE MARKS RANKED BY NUMBER OF KILLS
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  11. World War II aircraft ranked by Google search results
  12. Saab 21
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  15. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the de Havilland Mosquito* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) with Rowland White
  16. Low-level nuclear strike in the Canadian Starfighter
  17. jet-powered Cutlass was a disaster
  18. Werner Herzog*’s Guide to Engine Testbed Aircraft
  19. I was a Supersonic Pig Tamer!
  20. The story of the F-20 Tigershark (including pilot interview)
  21. The fearsome electronic warfare capabilities of the Saab Gripen E
  22. We asked an aero-engineer and a scientist whether Barbie’s Jet would work in real life
  23. Was the Nakajima Ki-49 ‘Helen’ World War 2 bomber a terrible aircraft? And why didn’t Japan have truly heavy bombers?
  24. Fighter pilot shares Top Ten Myths about 1-v-1 Air Combat
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  27. Epically Soviet Images from Aeroflot of Classic Aircraft
  28. My Top 10 Cancelled Warplanes By Tony Buttler
  29. My experience in the Vietnam War taught me not to trust my Government
  30. Is that a Russian warplane over your house?
  31. 10 Reasons the Bristol Beaufighter was the hardest bastard in the sky
  32. 10 Rudest Examples of Aircraft Graffiti
  33. Top 10 Yugoslavian aircraft
  34. Cold War aviation art
  35. Top 10 Japanese Aircraft Of World War II
  36. The formidable Mitsubishi Ki-83
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  38. Winkle: The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot
  39. IN COMBAT WITH LOCKHEED F-117 NIGHTHAWK PILOT MAJOR ROBERT ‘ROBSON’ DONALDSON
  40. I flew the B-47 nuclear bomber
  41. Interview with Convair F-102 Delta Dagger pilot
  42. Flying Hercules for the US Coast Guard
  43. Interview with Cold War Saab Draken pilot
  44. The good, the bad and the ugly truth of the RAF C-130 Hercules
  45. 10 reasons the vickers vc10 was the keith moon of jetliners
  46. Hush-Kit Joe talking 10 favourite aircraft
  47. The Big Push
  48. The case for the P-47 Thunderbolt being the greatest fighter of the Second World War
  49. “As an an all-round fighting machine, the P-47N has a pretty good claim to being the best Allied fighter of WWII to see production and actual operational service”
  50. P-47’s ‘great set of pipes’
  51. The final aerial combat of the P-47 Thunderbolt killed a P-51 Mustang
  52. The 10 least green aeroplanes
  53. The death of the Republic XP-69 superfighter
  54. FOX TWO, POP ONE
  55. The Chinese spy balloon shootdown and a brief history of anti-balloon warfare
  56. I flew Sea Harriers for the Indian Navy
  57. Hawker Typhoon versus Eurofighter Typhoon
  58. Interview with Merlin helicopter pilot
  59. The Worst French aircraft manufacturer?
  60. US Army Fighters of World War II ranked by ‘kills’
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  62. Interview with Test Pilot of the First African-designed Attack Helicopter

2022 106

  1. What Ukrainian attacks on Russian airbase mean, by Guy Plopsky
  2. RAF Fighter Pilot describes how confident he felt facing Russian fighters
  3. Top 10 combat aircraft snow camouflage schemes
  4. If the Victor bomber’s wing design was so good – why is the crescent wing a dead concept?
  5. Thoughts on the F-35B fighter crash
  6. ranks 3rd in the list of destroying enemy aircraft
  7. The MiG-29 is a ‘Super Hunter’: Account from a MiG-29 fighter pilot
  8. Untangling Project Tempest, GCAP and British dreams of a Sixth Generation Combat Aircraft
  9. Of course the MiG-21 was the most important Cold War aircraft, here’s why
  10. Top 12 tanker aircraft
  11. 10 Worst Aircraft Carriers
  12. Paul Tremelling
  13. 10 obscure cancelled french warplanes of the 1950s
  14. Well, I’ve been to Topgun so Tom Cruise thinks he’s me
  15. explored by the British aircraft company Miles.
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  17. Qatari Air Force ground ‘Gay Typhoon’ fighter aircraft
  18. The Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes back from printers
  19. gathered intelligence
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  21. “I’m OK on my own” claims RAF Tranche 1 Typhoon
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  24. 10 MORE of the Worst British military aircraft
  25. 5 Things I learnt writing a book about the McDonnell XP-67 ‘Moonbat’ experimental fighter
  26. Vickers Wellingtons
  27. 10 myths you shouldn’t believe about the Messerschmitt 262
  28. How East Germany made the world’s worst airliner
  29. Mcdonnell xp 67 moonbat x planes book review
  30. F-14/Phoenix combination was a key in winning the Cold War
  31. aerosexual
  32. I flew the SR-71 Blackbird in the Cold War, here’s why it was so important
  33. As someone who has actually jumped out of a Boeing 727 I can say DB Cooper was a fucking idiot, here’s why…
  34. Of course the Sabre was the most important Cold War aircraft, here’s why
  35. 10 Reasons I loved Flying the Tornado
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  37. Did Bill Gunston successfully envision a stealthy superfighter jump-jet – or is it just a load of hot gas?
  38. The most important Cold War aircraft?
  39. Matthew Willis
  40. The Scopophiliac’s Guide to Aircraft Manufacturers. Part 1: Hawker aircraft ranked by beauty
  41. 10 Reasons the Supermarine Seafang DID NOT kill John F. Kennedy
  42. What happened at Saki air base? The likely cause of the Russian air base explosions in Crimea
  43. Typhoon pilot and technical advisor talk back
  44. Yesterday we published an article
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  48. New contender for coolest firefighter aircraft: Footage of A400M firefighting trials
  49. The Aircraft Carrier Hiryu: Book review
  50. Why I loved flying the world’s most beautiful fighter jet
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  52. Loyal Wingmen
  53. Wellesley.
  54. Turkish TFX programme as Turkey couldn’t do it alone
  55. Snoop Dogg’s Top 10 Target Tug Aircraft
  56. Don’t think, do. Why Top Gun Maverick is such a snoozefest (contains spoilers)
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  58. Buccaneer thing
  59. 10 reasons the sud aviation caravelle jetliner is fantastic
  60. 10 reasons I found the Harrier adequate: A Harrier pilot writes
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  62. Darkstar
  63. If different directors had tackled Top Gun 2
  64. Light Fighters – Are they worth the effort?
  65. 10 reasons i loved flying the super hornet
  66. Life and death in the ‘Delta Queen’: My time on the B-58 Hustler supersonic bomber
  67. Zipper over the bathtub i flew the f 104g starfighter for the german navy
  68. Interview with convair f 106 delta dart pilot
  69. Episode 2 of our podcast is now out!
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  71. Short Stirlings
  72. Paul Tremelling
  73. The Hush-Kit podcast is launched!
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  75. Notes from a ‘Felon’ (apologies to Dostoevsky)
  76. Analysis of Russian airpower deployment in Ukraine by Guy Plopsky
  77. Former RAF Typhoon Wing Commander gives his views on the deadly meaning of a No-Fly Zone over Ukraine
  78. Fantastique French airliners of the 1940s
  79. Bayraktar
  80. Top Ten Allied Fighter Squadrons of World War II
  81. Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes pledge phase to end
  82. Interview with the man who built a human-powered helicopter (and worked with the legendary Edgley Optica)
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  84. How do you defend a smaller nation against aggression from a larger one? 5 models of self-defence
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  86. The case for the Grumman F6F Hellcat being the greatest fighter of the Second World War
  87. The case for the Spitfire being the greatest fighter of the Second World War
  88. Bf 109
  89. 10 Weirdest Mustangs: Bizarre and exotic P-51 variants
  90. Marauder
  91. I love you, Hercules – In Praise of the C-130: Cecilia Fage adores a Herk
  92. Unbelievably sleek fighter cold war combat aircraft bud nelsons light fighter concepts
  93. 10 Most Important Aircraft in Irish History
  94. 10 Biggest Myths in (High-Speed) Aerodynamics
  95. Is this the only music video to feature an Airspeed Oxford? Even if it isn’t, I suspect it’s the only one to feature an Oxford and a CF-100. And a Caravelle. It makes me want to visit Belgium immediately.
  96. Danny Dire’s Guide to the Most Gangster Butterfly-Tail Aeroplanes
  97. Mysterious delta aircraft at Area 51: what is it?
  98. Top ten sexiest rear-ends in aviation
  99. Model bitch-fight! Tempest fury at Checkmate attention
  100. – Joe Wilding
  101. Smile with the X-32!
  102. 10 Terrible Aircraft That First Flew In 1951
  103. The 450 club piston engined warplanes and one racer that went beyond 450 miles per hour
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  105. US Navy’s F9F Panther
  106. The impossibility of choosing a favourite World War II aircraft

2021 110

  1. Mike Sutton
  2. Top 12 Swedish aircraft
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  4. Mirage III
  5. Spitfire
  6. had nastier handling than the Hellcat
  7. Yes, Czechoslovakia made aeroplanes…here’s our favourite 10
  8. Su-57 ‘Felon’
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  10. The most Swedish thing that has ever happened: Agnetha Fältskog (of Abba fame) sings around an active Saab Draken fighter base!
  11. Empire of the sky: The Imperial Airship Service
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  13. I flew the CF-104 Starfighter: Don’t call it the ‘Widowmaker’!
  14. Rb 57f pilot interview flying high with usafs ultra high altitude nuclear sniffer dog
  15. Top 8 Five-engined aircraft…yes, you read that correctly
  16. The Pakistani/Chinese JF-17 fighter aircraft might not have Russian origins… but it may have Romanian ones!
  17. The gargantuan Calidus B-350: A 21st century Skyraider or yet another COIN aircraft that won’t happen?
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  19. Brewster Buffalo
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  21. Analysis of FC-31 stealthy naval fighter
  22. Top ten italian aircraft of world war two
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  24. What is the significance of the recent chinese and american tests of boost glide vehicles we demystify them
  25. Extremely Sexy Spaceplanes
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  27. Top 10 Supersonic Transport Aircraft
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  29. Ki-45 Toryu
  30. ‘East of Suez’
  31. 10 Aircraft Named After Dogs
  32. Flying & Fighting in the OH-58D: Interview with OH-58D Kiowa combat veteran
  33. own design history
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  35. Aircrew (1979 Soviet air disaster movie)
  36. Clash of the cancelled Round 5: Curtiss XP-55 Ascender versus Kyushu J7W Shinden
  37. EFA and the MiG-37: The view from 1989
  38. The madness and greatness of Tesla’s vertical take-off jet aircraft
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  40. sinking more submarines
  41. RAF promotional film from 1960 with stunning Lightning footage: The Favourites
  42. Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes: New frontcover, RELEASE DATE announced…and launch of VOLUME 2
  43. Human Powered Aircraft
  44. Brand new Hush-Kit film on the sexiest, worst and most fascinating cancelled US bombers
  45. Downwash: our new aviation news summary
  46. Guy Plopsky
  47. Drone War Vietnam
  48. My favourite display team in action
  49. Clash of the Cancelled, Round 4: World War II Fighter Aircraft, Heinkel He 100 versus Martin-Baker MB 3
  50. Everything you always wanted to know about soviet world war ii combat aircraft but were afraid to ask with author edward ward
  51. Ron Smith
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  53. Five Fun Vaguely Flight-Related Facts about Ascension Island with author Oliver Harris
  54. Clash of the cancelled Round 2: North American YF-107A versus Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III
  55. Jim Smith
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  57. Latest thoughts on new Russian mystery fighter aircraft: ‘Fleabag’ achieves checkmate
  58. First comments on new single-engine Russian fighter: Checkmate?
  59. An Utterly Depressing A-Z of Aircraft
  60. Clash of the cancelled Round 1: Supersonic ‘jump-jets’, Yak-141 versus Boeing X-32B
  61. beautiful and unlucky
  62. The Cricklewood Crippler, Part 2: The Unsung Halifax Heavy Bomber in 12 questions with Jane Gulliford Lowes
  63. Handley Page Halifaxes
  64. Top 10 Cold War Carrier Planes
  65. Brigands
  66. Flying & fighting in the F-111: Interview with Aardvark Weapon System Officer Jim Rotramel
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  68. I flew Kurt Tank’s final fighter
  69. Top 58 fastest aeroplanes
  70. Mosquito
  71. Heinkel He 177: the Bomber that Won the War
  72. He 177
  73. This is the helicopter we need for the most dangerous threat we face
  74. Quickfire World War II combat aircraft Q&A with author James Holland
  75. “Fuck stealth!” An F-15 pilot opines on why the Eagle II is needed (and the story of the ‘Eagle Eye’ hunter scope)
  76. High times: A speedy history of drugs in aviation
  77. The RF-4C: Last Manned USAF Tactical Reconnaissance Aircraft by Col. Eileen Bjorkman
  78. Jim Smith
  79. Polish PZL P.11
  80. Kamov Ka-26 cold engine start, engine test and take off at Kislippó, Hungary
  81. Tu-95/142
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  84. Re-read this article in forty years time: We predict the future of aviation
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  86. F 20 versus lavi the tigershark the young lion and the viper
  87. Saddam Hussein had a gold-plated jewel-encrusted personal Spitfire aircraft and you can buy it
  88. Life on Royal Navy aircraft carrier (1960)
  89. Flak: myth versus reality with Donald Nijboer
  90. Guy Plopsky
  91. Miss Shilling’s orifice,
  92. The F-36 Kingsnake: the ‘fifth-generation-minus’ fighter USAF wants
  93. I flew the most secret MiG fighter in the world for the US Air Force: Red Eagle pilot gives the low-down on America’s MiG-21 ‘Fishbed’
  94. best fighter in operational service in 1960
  95. Happy Birthday Spitfire special!
  96. Could the cancelled tsr 2 super bomber have won us the lost eurovision song contest
  97. Is the RAF’s ‘Go-Go Gadget Plane’ a good idea? Analysis of the Aeralis concept
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  99. SA-330 Puma
  100. half-pancake
  101. Whatever happened to the Westland WS-70 Blackhawk?
  102. reconnaissance
  103. Blackbird pilot interview, Part 2: SR-71 could go even faster than you thought, reveals pilot
  104. we asked an art historian
  105. Phantom Phantoms & 4000 other Phantoms
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  107. What is good and bad about the F-35 cockpit: A ‘Panther’ pilot’s guide to modern cockpits
  108. Rhino charge! Flying & Fighting in the Super Hornet
  109. Everything you always wanted to know about Chinese air power (but were afraid to ask) – Interview with Andreas Rupprecht
  110. Jan 4 is the date that the Tejas, Fulmar and Vindicator all took their first flights

2020 177

  1. The strange Soviet aeroplanes of Mr. Moskalev
  2. The Worst Air Force Possible for 2020
  3. F3D Skyknight
  4. Dassault Rafale versus Eurofighter Typhoon, The Final Word: Part 2
  5. The 11 Tiniest Jet Fighters
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  7. The best made military propaganda film: Wehrhafte Schweiz (1964) features incredible flying footage
  8. We don’t need no edgy ejection: Interview with man who ejected from a Harrier and played on a Pink Floyd album
  9. Eurofighter Typhoon versus Dassault Rafale video: Part 1
  10. Top 14 Flying Machine Restaurants
  11. Fleet Air Arm Myth #5 Taranto inspired Pearl Harbor
  12. 11 warplanes that stopped killing and started helping
  13. Who was the first supersonic man? Former F-15C pilot takes a dive into supersonic tails of the unexpected
  14. The time US bombers attacked a live volcano
  15. 10 Obscure Air Attacks
  16. Stephen Caulfield
  17. Two-day life expectancy: F-4 Phantoms in Cold War Germany
  18. Mirage F1: The Tomcat killer
  19. Super 80s Panavia Tornado promo video
  20. Africa’s top fighter aircraft
  21. Flying fighting in the f 16 interview with raf exchange wild weasel viper pilot air commodore paul godfrey
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  23. Mirage IV project
  24. An unmanly guide to pilotless aircraft
  25. New X-plane Aurora CRANE announced for DARPA: Our analysis
  26. The greatest aircraft of the IAF, part 2: Hawker Hurricane by K S Nair
  27. We chose the worst available warplanes for our 2020 air force
  28. New sixteen kill F-14 pilot interview
  29. Saying goodbye to the British Airways’ Boeing 747 with pilot Lyndsay McGregor (with incredible photos from Rich Cooper)
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  31. The greatest aircraft of the Indian Air Force, Part 1: The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 by KS Nair
  32. In the cockpit with real topgun instructor dave bio baranek takes us for a brief history of fighter cockpits f 106 to f 35
  33. Stephen Caulfield
  34. Memo to general arnold from william donovan regarding the swiss retirement.pdf
  35. 5 aeroplanes you haven’t heard of
  36. Contest: name the British Aerospace P.1214-3 jet fighter
  37. Halloween Warplanes!
  38. Javelin interceptor
  39. The Javelin, the Kingfish & what’s wrong with the Typhoon: warplane thoughts
  40. My fight with secret migs an f 15 eagle pilot writes
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  43. -SEAN KELLY
  44. Qatari Air Force to have all aircraft types by 2023
  45. Tigercat
  46. Top 10 Defector’s Aircraft
  47. Trying electric flight – Pipistrel Velis Electro
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  50. Next generation air dominance prototype a former british technical liaison for washington reflects
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  52. the V-22 is not necessary
  53. here’s my story
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  55. Eurofighter typhoon versus dassault rafale a 2020 comparison
  56. The US Air Force Secretly Designed and Flew a New Fighter Jet Testbed and I just Feel Depressed
  57. 10 cancelled counter insurgency aircraft we ask a former mig 27 pilot if hed fly them into combat
  58. Flying fighting the f 4 phantom ii in the iran iraq war interview with iranian air force brig general rtd alireza namaki
  59. The weirdest aeroplane you’ve never heard of, the utterly batshit Plymouth A-A-2004
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  61. 10 American Fighter Aircraft Killed by Fate
  62. root of the word
  63. The ‘Last Gunfighter’: F-8 Crusader over North Vietnam
  64. Top 11 Military Jump-Jets (vertical take-off aircraft/VTOL/STOVL fighters)
  65. “Land rules don’t apply and the little nuts just don’t soak up all that booze”: A history of aviation by someone who knows nothing and hasn’t even googled it
  66. How to crash and survive in an f 8 the us navy crusader fighter pilot who cheated death
  67. 17 heaviest armed gunfighters/gunniest warplanes
  68. The other BRRRRRRT: we talk to a MiG-27 pilot about firing the devastating 30-mm ‘Gatling’ gun
  69. RAF Typhoon to get new radar in time to detect third horseman of apocalypse
  70. Tomcat /AIM-54 missile combination to the Flanker /AA-10C
  71. Dave ‘Bio’ Baranek
  72. Fleet Air Arm myths, No. 4: The Inter-War Admiralty had no interest in aviation.
  73. Tornado F.Mk 3s
  74. Top Eleven Parasite Aircraft
  75. 1000 maintenance hours per flying hour
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  77. The chinese superfighter that never was what the j 20s failed rival reveals
  78. Fleet Air Arm Myths, Number 2: The Swordfish was rugged
  79. former RAF Tornado pilot
  80. resistance
  81. 10 Fleet Air Arm Myths, Number 1: What the Sea Harrier did not do in the Falklands
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  83. Top 10 multi role fighters 2020
  84. Ten Things You Didn’t Know About World War Two warplanes
  85. Dassault confident that internet will be able to spell Rafael correctly by 2045: three injured in press briefing
  86. Bing Chandler
  87. Top 10 Racing Seaplanes
  88. Berlin airlift.
  89. Aviation history cheat notes: ‘Teddy’ Petter
  90. Saab J 29 Tunnan and JAS 39 Gripen compared: Part 2, Airframe and Flight Control
  91. What makes an aeroplane beautiful?
  92. Myths mistakes of falklands war we ask commander sharkey ward
  93. What the hell are ekranoplans and why have they never really taken off?
  94. 10 Weird Aircraft
  95. Bing Chandler
  96. 10 Dive Bombers of World War II
  97. How the name of an aircraft determines it fate
  98. today’s helicopter
  99. How the sea harrier clipped the f 15 eagles wings interview with commander sharkey ward part 2
  100. The RF-4C: Last Manned USAF Tactical Reconnaissance Aircraft by Col. Eileen Bjorkman
  101. The top 15 captured warplanes
  102. Our Top 45 aircraft
  103. Interview with commander sharkey ward part 1 sea harrier frs mk 1 air combat
  104. Share on X (Opens in new window) X
  105. Ten unusual aircraft design solutions
  106. What is your favourite aircraft? Top 10 aircraft of our readers (vote now)
  107. What is the new plasma ‘foo-fighter’ technology and is it responsible for the Hornet UFO footage?
  108. Flying & fighting in the Lockheed EP-3E Aries II: Interview with Cold War spy
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  110. Skywarrior pilot here
  111. Flying fighting in the a 6 intruder
  112. Those litigious men in their flying machines: The Wright Brothers & why the US wasn’t ready for war
  113. vectored thrust
  114. 10 cancelled counter insurgency aircraft we ask a former mig 27 pilot if hed fly them into combat
  115. BAe SABA project:
  116. 10 cancelled counter insurgency aircraft we ask a former mig 27 pilot if hed fly them into combat
  117. Flying fighting in the f 15 eagle interview with f 15 eagle pilot
  118. A brief history of USAF aerial refuelling by a former F-15 pilot
  119. 12 ravishingly beautiful aircraft of the Art Deco era (and one from far later)
  120. Offbeat aviation stories covered in The Aviation Historian
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  129. Cancelled Swedish combat aircraft projects & the road to Gripen: We speak to Saab’s Knut Övrebö, Chief Engineer of Future Air Systems
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  138. Complete IL-2 Sturmovik pilot notes for your pleasure
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  140. Hush-Kit and Rowland ‘Vulcan 607’ White interview each other
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  152. Top Ten Australian Aircraft
  153. Britain’s ‘Budget X-15’ or Manned Blue Steel
  154. T-38M trainers and the F-5 2000
  155. Top 13 War Gliders
  156. Typhoon
  157. F-14 Tomcats
  158. deep-stall
  159. From the ‘Lying Brothers’ to Lilienthal: ‘Der Traum vom Fliegen’ and the birth of German aviation in the 19th & 20th centuries
  160. April 2020
  161. Jim Smith
  162. belch out black smoke
  163. Intakes
  164. Louis Gundlach
  165. low-visibility roundel
  166. March 2020
  167. Iranian air force
  168. Fictional mig fighters and the aircraft that inspired them
  169. February 2020
  170. most recent victory in air combat by an RAF pilot in an RAF aircraft
  171. Flying fighting in hal tejas interview with test pilot rajeev joshi
  172. the author of two book
  173. Blackburn Blackburn
  174. aerial firefighting
  175. Tempest 2
  176. fascinating book
  177. January 2020

2019 56

  1. P. 1214
  2. Dassault rafale m versus f a 18e f super hornet carrier fighters compared
  3. Flawed concepts a litany of failed british aircraft
  4. December 2019
  5. The top fighter aircraft of 2019 within visual range combat
  6. Flying fighting the dassault rafale interview with a rafale combat veteran
  7. November 2019
  8. Flying fighting in the hal hf 24 marut interview with iaf pilot vijainder k thakur
  9. Flying fighting in the mig 21 interview with group captain mja vinod
  10. night-fighter.
  11. Viggen-like wing
  12. How good is chinas j 10c fighter we ask justin bronk from the rusi think tank
  13. October 2019
  14. Beyond Visual Range
  15. transport
  16. Tejas in India
  17. September 2019
  18. how his aircraft would fare in combat against a Spitfire
  19. SOKO J-22 Orao
  20. Flying fighting in the mig 29 interview with indian air force fulcrum pilot air marshal harish masand
  21. August 2019
  22. Supermarine Walrus
  23. Convair’s spectacular Kingfish
  24. Flying fighting in the sukhoi su 30 flanker a pilot interview
  25. Flying fighting in the jf 17 thunder interview with pakistan air force fighter pilot
  26. Jack ‘Whopper’ McCain fought in Afghanistan in the Blackhawk
  27. Float like a butterfly sting like a bee air combat in the worlds smallest jet fighter the ferocious gnat
  28. TSR2’s cancellation,
  29. July 2019
  30. Piranha,
  31. Milli Muharip Ucak
  32. European Fuck-Ass
  33. June 2019
  34. Dan Sharp
  35. Before f 35 my role in the advanced short take off vertical landing astovl project
  36. Stephen Caulfield
  37. Tu-141 and 143
  38. May 2019
  39. soviet interceptor pilots
  40. Jim Smith
  41. Flying fighting in the gripen interview with a swedish air force pilot
  42. Flying fighting in the saab viggen cold war thunder
  43. April 2019
  44. Payen Delta
  45. Red dawn why i flew a soviet mi 24 hind gunship helicopter over texas
  46. E 7 early warning aircraft the wrong deal for the uks royal air force
  47. F 15 versus flanker an eagle pilots view
  48. plan seems to be shelved
  49. f S-400 air defence system
  50. KC-46A Pegasus
  51. March 2019
  52. February 2019
  53. 10 worst german aircraft
  54. second-best fighter of 1969.
  55. Interview with a british f 35b lightning ii pilot semper fidelis to semper paratus
  56. January 2019

2018 40

  1. aren’t particularly interested in aircraft
  2. AIM-120 series
  3. MiG-25s
  4. MiG-25
  5. Robin Olds
  6. December 2018
  7. Radar: IRBIS-E
  8. USAAF proving you could usefully cram more fuel
  9. Top 10 carrier fighters 2018
  10. November 2018
  11. Top combat aircraft of 2030
  12. before they had ovens and fridges on them
  13. October 2018
  14. Our latest film analysis of the j 20
  15. Draken had a very low radar cross section
  16. September 2018
  17. Anshuman Mainkar
  18. August 2018
  19. British Tempest
  20. Seafire
  21. July 2018
  22. Stingbat lhx stealth helicopter would it have worked in real life
  23. Is it good having 3 engines?
  24. June 2018
  25. The f 19 stealth fighter would it have worked in the real world
  26. Firefox
  27. Gripen will be the E
  28. May 2018
  29. April 2018
  30. Ask the pilot raf eurofighter typhoon fgr4
  31. Mission 13 over iraq hush kit speaks to typhoon pilot dfc winner roger cruickshank on his most dangerous mission
  32. Top 10 beyond visual range fighter aircraft 2018: selection process and the science of BVR combat
  33. coolest roundel on the planet
  34. Top 10 attack helicopters
  35. Burt Rutan
  36. March 2018
  37. February 2018
  38. REVEALED: Britain’s secret stealth helicopter & other exotic Westland projects
  39. is surely NOT a Mikoyan MFI Mark 2
  40. January 2018

2017 31

  1. Yf 23 versus yf 22 why did usaf choose the f 22
  2. Jim Smith
  3. Ask the insider the advanced short range air to air missile
  4. F-86 Sabres
  5. December 2017
  6. Su 35 versus f 22 raptor analysis from rusis justin bronk
  7. LeO 45
  8. November 2017
  9. Flying and fighting in the mig 19 in conversation with wg cdr irfan masum part 1
  10. October 2017
  11. become totemic as a symbol of British decline
  12. former F-15 pilot Paul Woodford
  13. Westland
  14. September 2017
  15. An idiots guide to chinese flankers
  16. August 2017
  17. Flying the f 4 phantom ii british style
  18. 1922 Deutsch Cup,
  19. July 2017
  20. June 2017
  21. May 2017
  22. April 2017
  23. Indian AMCA
  24. Part One
  25. MiG-21s, MC-21s and the overrated Typhoon: In conversation with FlightGlobal’s Stephen Trimble
  26. An air force of my own #1
  27. The F-35 will fail, until the US learns to share
  28. March 2017
  29. Top 8 Mach 3 fighters
  30. February 2017
  31. January 2017

2016 33

  1. IRIS-T missiles
  2. Ed Ward
  3. December 2016
  4. Chinese stealth what can we learn from the j 20s zhuhai debut
  5. November 2016
  6. A B-52 pilot’s guide to modern fighters,
  7. October 2016
  8. Mikoyan Izdeliye 33 (or Project 33)
  9. September 2016
  10. Trump’s Air Force Plan
  11. July 2016
  12. The empires ironclad flying fighting in the b 52
  13. 10 worst US aircraft,
  14. June 2016
  15. The ten worst soviet aircraft
  16. Dassault ‘Balzac’
  17. May 2016
  18. The top bvr fighters of 2016
  19. Active Electronically Scanning Array
  20. Michael Napier
  21. (also seen on the stealthy BAe P.125 concept).
  22. The top ten fighters 1946
  23. April 2016
  24. Su 35 versus typhoon analysis from rusis justin bronk
  25. next generation fighter never went further than mock-ups.
  26. have often knocked
  27. March 2016
  28. Ed Ward
  29. February 2016
  30. Top Ten Most Boring Aircraft in History!
  31. Kash Ryan
  32. propellers at the back and the front?
  33. January 2016

2015 20

  1. December 2015
  2. against teen fighters in training:
  3. November 2015
  4. wheels on them for when they are on land
  5. Major J. N. D. Heenan
  6. October 2015
  7. Mirage F.1s
  8. September 2015
  9. August 2015
  10. Fokker G1
  11. The indomitable squall rafales cutting edge radar
  12. June 2015
  13. May 2015
  14. largest heaviest ‘fighter’ ever built
  15. April 2015
  16. what the next generation of fighters will look like
  17. Short Brothers
  18. March 2015
  19. Valentina Tereshkova
  20. January 2015

2014 18

  1. Nieuport 16 (the rest of the unit flew the superior Nieuport 17
  2. December 2014
  3. November 2014
  4. Amy Johnson
  5. October 2014
  6. Contra-rotating propellers
  7. September 2014
  8. August 2014
  9. pivoting cockpit canopy
  10. July 2014
  11. June 2014
  12. May 2014
  13. April 2014
  14. Matthew Willis
  15. March 2014
  16. Dorian Crook
  17. February 2014
  18. January 2014

2013 28

  1. The anglo french variable geometry afvg fighter and what it says about european military aircraft projects today
  2. The ten best fighters of world war ii
  3. December 2013
  4. November 2013
  5. online article on the F-35
  6. Ten coolest cancelled helicopters
  7. October 2013
  8. September 2013
  9. Big Book of Flight
  10. Stephen Caulfield
  11. Bill Sweetman
  12. August 2013
  13. Stephen Caulfield
  14. July 2013
  15. German Horten jet-fighters being the first stealth aircraft
  16. June 2013
  17. article
  18. Do 335.
  19. May 2013
  20. April 2013
  21. Shin Meiwa US-2
  22. March 2013
  23. Hush kit bottom ten the ten worst carrier aircraft
  24. Short Skyvan
  25. February 2013
  26. My favourite aeroplane in 200 words 30 aero 45 by kevan vogler
  27. Antonov an 2 two wings good
  28. January 2013

2012 25

  1. Hush kit top ten the 10 best looking japanese aeroplanes
  2. Hush-Kit Top Ten: The ten best-looking Australian aeroplanes
  3. December 2012
  4. elegant Fw 200 airliner
  5. Swedish aeroplanes
  6. My favourite aeroplane in 200 words 24 saab 37 viggen by alice dryden
  7. Bugatti 100P
  8. Barracuda
  9. November 2012
  10. engines
  11. Sea Fury
  12. October 2012
  13. “The Bristol 188
  14. My favourite aeroplane in 200 words 9 lockheed sr 71 blackbird by tim robinson
  15. September 2012
  16. The bae experimental aircraft programme photo journal
  17. August 2012
  18. long-cancelled P.1154
  19. Super Hornet
  20. July 2012
  21. Who was Sweden’s flying farm girl?
  22. June 2012
  23. The bac tsr 2 bombing the myth
  24. May 2012
  25. April 2012

2011 1

  1. piston to jet propulsion

2008 2

  1. The Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes project is launched: 100% funded reached
  2. Book review: Harrier 809 by Rowland White

1999 3

  1. Hush-Kit
  2. Skua pilot
  3. The mig 29 is a super hunter account from a mig 29 fighter pilot

1996 1

  1. An utterly adorable guide to the worlds cutest aircraft

1992 1

  1. shoot down an SR-71 continued until August 25, 1981, which was the last time an enemy (North Korea)

1990 2

  1. Amelia Earhart
  2. Ron Smith