Italian Gen. Italo Balbo’s arrival in Chicago was a spectacular performance freighted with future history. Early on the evening of July 15, 1933, his air fleet could be glimpsed amid the enveloping ...
In the short time between the first flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk in 1903 and the Battle of Britain that started in July of 1940, the airplane had evolved from a rickety DIY creation to ...
World War I birthed the modern air forces of the world. As nations grasped the importance of aerial dominance, the significance of airpower grew exponentially. World War II saw the large-scale ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Virtually unknown outside Italy, the C.202 Folgore was the best fighter airplane fielded in significant numbers by the ...