Garth Calitz Oct 8, 201910 min readFlying Boats – The Giants of the SkiesThis history of world traveller will by no means be accurate if the giant flying boats were not mentioned prominently, before the Second...
Garth Calitz Sep 11, 20199 min readLydia Litvyak – First Female Fighter AceLydia Vladimirovna Litvyak, affectionately known as Lilya, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. Historians...
Garth Calitz Aug 6, 20198 min readThe B-29 Superfortress - Devastation from the AirOn August 6, 1945, 74 years ago today, an American bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of...
Dennis RussellMay 21, 20193 min readFrederick Wendall Glover- Unsung Fighter Ace of WWIIFreddie “Needle Nose” Glover was born on 4 December1915, a native of Asheville, North Carolina. Shortly after his high school graduation...
Garth Calitz Nov 27, 20185 min readA Higher Calling the story of -Ye Olde PubA 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...
