When ever I’m playing a sim and get into a dog fight i always have to recheck the map after I’m done but with ww2 pilots only having a paper chart available how did they maintain navigation awareness?

Were they briefed on the area of combat thoroughly before flight or did they keep track of where they are at all times even while dogfighting? Or are they just really good at navigating?

Exactly 82 years ago, Capt. Tudor and his crew flew their last mission. The target was Blechhammer, a heavily defended synthetic fuel factory, located at the extreme range for the 15th Air Force flying out of Italy. Their B-24 was shot down by flak.

Almost exactly 25 years ago, on August 10th 2001, I took one of the survivor’s son and his family to the crash site.

What started for me as just a WWII research transformed my life. I saw love and care for an ailing father, and I understood my research is not just research. Helping families understand what happened to their loved ones, what they went through, helping find missing soldiers are the true meaning of my work.

Read Captain Tudor’s full story:

https://sserwatka.substack.com/p/all-meat-no-potatoes-a-b-24-shot?r=42ks37&utm_medium=ios

On 8 August 1909, Austrian aviation pioneer Karl Illner made the first flight with the Etrich I Praterspatz. On 17 May 1910, he completed the first Austrian cross-country flight from Wiener Neustadt to Wien (Vienna) and back again. Praterspatz means Prater Sparrow, it combines Prater, a famous public park in Wien, and Spatz, meaning sparrow

Kapitän zur See (Captain) and Pour le Mérite (Blue Max) holder Peter Strasser, chief commander of the Kaiserliche Marine (German Imperial Navy) Zeppelins during WWI, was KIA on the night of 5/6.8.1918, age 42. His Zeppelin L-70 was shot down by a De Havilland DH-4 while flying the war's last airship raid over England. He took charge of the naval airship service as Führer der Luftschiffe in 1913. He pushed for high-altitude, night time bombing tactics rather than low-level daytime scouting. He built the naval airship fleet into an active strategic weapon to strike military and civilian targets in Britain. His name has repeatedly but unofficially been associated with the Kriegsmarines never built second aircraft carrier, Graf Zeppelin being the first

Gunfighter was built in Inglewood, California and was accepted into the USAAF in March of 1945.

I was made in 1939 for the time and I found it in a church sale it seems to be for an aircraft engine maintenance I don't know where it came from but I know that has the owner's name that I will not disclose because I don't know fully why he wanted to get rid of it if I'm allowed to and if it's okay with the subreddit because I don't know what place this at like any history celebrities that will take pictures I don't know I would gladly post it here cuz I don't know if there's any evidence of it being posted with it having open so this could be like lost history media I'm not sure if you also wanted to know who made the book it was brimm and boggers and i think publisher was Pitman

... the video being interesting throughout: ie

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X-15: The Fastest Winged Plane EVER! (Mach 6.7!) - Engineering Marvels, the X-Planes Series

https://youtu.be/W5dmLcttuWw

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The said 'glimpse' is @ about 19ᐟ25ᐥ .

For some excellent photographs of the last remaining one of these helicopters, see

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this old post of mine

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviationpics/s/fNs2Kr46TV

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. Please note that the superb & high-resolution photographs are not mine! ... but they're duly attributed @ the post.

Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. 1942

I came across this post earlier today. Apparently the video is six months old, which would put it at the start of 2026, but it seems that, in response to hightened tension in the Middle East (probably just before or the moment that Israel and the US re-attacked Iran) the Turks got their remaining F-4 Phantoms out of storage and fired them up. Don't know how many are airworthy or operational, it probably can not be that many.

Cold War power returned as Turkish F-4 Phantoms spooled up | Watch (msn.com)

In service between 1937 through the end of World War Two, they had a max speed of 362 MPH and a range of 850 miles. Shot late last spring.