He might be better remembered for inventing the telephone, but Alexander Graham Bell played a pretty big part in the early days of aviation.

In the 1970s the US was looking at fielding large numbers of cheaper carriers and they wanted a VTOL fighter to go with it. The problem was the design chosen for development, the XFV-12, couldn’t get off the ground.

When the American’s were coming up with the F-22 Raptor, the Soviet’s were busy devising their own fifth generation fighter. And though it ultimately came to just a single prototype, the MiG 1.44/42 remains one of history’s great “what-ifs?”

The Fantrainer was an attempt to get the flight characteristics of a jet out of a basic trainer by using a ducted fan propulsion method.

It might look like a whale, but the Beverley provided critical air support in some of the post-WW2 conflicts that shaped the world today.
Unfortunately, the very last example may soon be going to the scrapyard.

What do you get when you leave an OV-10 and an O-2 together on a sultry, tropical night? Something that looks like the RTAF-5, one suspects.

While Italian fighters of the Second World War really do tend to get overlooked, IMO, the Caproni Vizolla’s are just about unknown!

The P-47 certainly made it’s mark, but it isn’t so well remembered that one example was the fastest piston engine fighter ever built!

It might have looked like a Warthog with Syphilis and ruined the good looks of the Canberra, but the B-57G showed the way of the future.

The B-26 was the CIA’s aircraft of choice for covert ops in the 19050s and ’60s. But as they got old, they got a major update, becoming even more lethal.