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The Navy almost had a turboprop flying boat capable of landing troops directly on enemy beaches. Then they quietly burie...
28/05/2026

The Navy almost had a turboprop flying boat capable of landing troops directly on enemy beaches. Then they quietly buried it.

The Convair R3Y Tradewind was decades ahead of its time. Here's why it never got the chance.

Full story: https://migflug.com/jetflights/convair-r3y-tradewind-turboprop-flying-boat-navy-1950s/

The Convair R3Y Tradewind was the fastest flying boat ever built, refuelled 4 jets at once, and was scrapped after 36 months. Why an Allison engine killed it.

Forget nuclear supercarriers. The most ambitious naval aviation concept in US history was a 785-foot HELIUM AIRSHIP — wi...
28/05/2026

Forget nuclear supercarriers. The most ambitious naval aviation concept in US history was a 785-foot HELIUM AIRSHIP — with a hangar bay full of biplane fighters that could launch and recover in flight.

The USS Akron and USS Macon. Two real flying aircraft carriers. The Navy built them. They worked. Then they lost both — in horrifying weather disasters that ended the era of military airships forever.

https://migflug.com/jetflights/uss-akron-uss-macon-flying-aircraft-carriers-f9c-sparrowhawk/

The USS Akron and USS Macon were the world’s only operational flying aircraft carriers — 785-ft airships carrying F9C Sparrowhawk fighters in their belly hangars.

For 70 years, US carrier catapults ran on steam. Then EMALS arrived on USS Gerald R. Ford and changed everything — elect...
12/05/2026

For 70 years, US carrier catapults ran on steam. Then EMALS arrived on USS Gerald R. Ford and changed everything — electromagnetic launches, smoother acceleration, less stress on airframes.

The catapult that quietly reinvented the aircraft carrier.

https://migflug.com/jetflights/emals-aag-aircraft-carrier-technology-revolution-ford-class/

How EMALS, Advanced Arresting Gear, and 700 MW of nuclear power turned the aircraft carrier into the most technically radical warship of the 21st century.

Imagine a carrier fighter that crashes one in every four landing attempts. Whose engines flame out so often the squadron...
12/05/2026

Imagine a carrier fighter that crashes one in every four landing attempts. Whose engines flame out so often the squadron commander tells pilots to assume both have failed before every approach. So universally hated that deck crews refused to work on it. Meet the Vought F7U Cutlass — the jet known as "The Ensign Killer."

The story: https://migflug.com/jetflights/vought-f7u-cutlass-ensign-killer-tailless-disaster-jet/

Imagine a fighter that crashes one in every four times it tries to land on a carrier. A fighter whose engines flame out so often the squadron commander tells his pilots to assume both have failed before every approach. A fighter so universally hated that the deck crews who handled it pinned a hand-p...

Forty-four years after the Falklands War, Argentina just signed for KC-135 Stratotankers — meaning their new F-16s can s...
08/05/2026

Forty-four years after the Falklands War, Argentina just signed for KC-135 Stratotankers — meaning their new F-16s can suddenly reach those islands again. Naval implications? Massive. Range was the one thing that kept the Argentine air arm grounded since 1982. https://migflug.com/jetflights/argentina-buys-kc-135-stratotanker-f-16-falklands-range/

Argentina has not had real combat air power since 1982. Forty-four years after the Falklands, the country flew its last operational Mirage in 2015 and has been making do with subsonic A-4 Skyhawks and IA-63 Pampa trainers ever since. That is finally over: the F-16 Vipers are coming, and now Buenos A...

Eighty crew. Sixteen bombers. Zero chance of landing back on the carrier.On this day in 1942, Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle l...
04/05/2026

Eighty crew. Sixteen bombers. Zero chance of landing back on the carrier.

On this day in 1942, Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle led the most audacious air raid of the Pacific War — launching fully loaded B-25 Mitchells from USS Hornet, 650 miles out from Tokyo. Every pilot knew it was a one-way ticket off that flight deck.

The physical damage was modest. The psychological shockwave changed the course of the war.

https://migflug.com/jetflights/sixteen-bombers-one-aircraft-carrier-and-the-attack-that-changed-the-pacific-war/

On 18 April 1942, Jimmy Doolittle launched 16 B-25 bombers from an aircraft carrier to bomb Tokyo. The damage was small. The consequences were enormous.

Red on the left, green on the right, white on the tail — and a whole system of flashing strobes and beacons. Every light...
24/04/2026

Red on the left, green on the right, white on the tail — and a whole system of flashing strobes and beacons. Every light on an aircraft has a specific purpose. Here's what each one means and why pilots depend on them.

https://migflug.com/jetflights/red-green-white-flash-what-every-light-on-a-plane-means/

Quick Facts Navigation Lights Red (left/port wingtip), Green (right/starboard wingtip), White (tail) — required from sunset to sunrise and in reduced visibility Anti-Collision Lights Red rotating beacon (top and bottom of fuselage) — on whenever engines are running Strobe Lights High-intensity w...

Japan's JS Izumo just got a new bow — literally. The helicopter destroyer is being converted into a light aircraft carri...
24/04/2026

Japan's JS Izumo just got a new bow — literally. The helicopter destroyer is being converted into a light aircraft carrier capable of operating F-35Bs. Japan hasn't had a carrier since WWII.

https://migflug.com/jetflights/izumo-gets-a-new-bow-japans-carrier-reborn/

For the first time since the Imperial Japanese Navy’s carriers were sent to the bottom of the Pacific, Japan has a warship designed to launch fixed-wing combat aircraft. The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force released photographs on April 20 showing JS Izumo with a dramatically reshaped flight deck...

Your engine just quit at 8,000 feet. You have maybe two minutes of glide time. ForeFlight already knows exactly which ru...
23/04/2026

Your engine just quit at 8,000 feet. You have maybe two minutes of glide time. ForeFlight already knows exactly which runways you can reach — and which ones you can't. This feature could save your life one day.

https://migflug.com/jetflights/your-engine-quit-foreflight-knows-where-you-can-land/

Your engine just quit. You have maybe ninety seconds before you need to commit to a landing site. Where do you go? For most of aviation history, the answer to that question has depended entirely on what the pilot remembers — the airports nearby, the terrain below, the wind direction, the glide rat...

Over 200 aerial victories. Flew from Pearl Harbor to the final days of the war. Survived being shot down multiple times....
22/04/2026

Over 200 aerial victories. Flew from Pearl Harbor to the final days of the war. Survived being shot down multiple times. Yet almost nobody outside Japan has ever heard of him. Tetsuzo Iwamoto may be the most underrated fighter ace in the entire history of air combat — and his story is absolutely extraordinary.

https://migflug.com/jetflights/tetsuzo-iwamoto-japans-greatest-naval-ace-youve-probably-never-heard-of/

Tetsuzō Iwamoto may have scored over 80 aerial victories, making him Japan's top naval ace of WWII. Discover the pilot who kept fighting long after the war ended.

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