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Flying Boats – The Giants of the Skies
This history of world traveller will by no means be accurate if the giant flying boats were not mentioned prominently, before the Second...
Garth Calitz
Oct 8, 201910 min read


Lydia Litvyak – First Female Fighter Ace
Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak, affectionately known as Lilya, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. Historians...
Garth Calitz
Sep 11, 20199 min read


The B-29 Superfortress - Devastation from the Air
On August 6, 1945, 74 years ago today, an American bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of...
Garth Calitz
Aug 6, 20198 min read


Frederick Wendall Glover- Unsung Fighter Ace of WWII
Freddie “Needle Nose” Glover was born on 4 December1915, a native of Asheville, North Carolina. Shortly after his high school graduation...
Dennis Russell
May 21, 20193 min read


A Higher Calling the story of -Ye Olde Pub
A pilot glanced outside his cockpit and froze. He blinked hard and looked again, hoping it was just a mirage. But his co-pilot stared at...
Garth Calitz
Nov 27, 20185 min read
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