A little over ninety years ago, an impressive single-engined biplane, painted ivory white and decorated with brilliant red cheat lines and lettering, was flying at an altitude of about 1,500 meters ov...

This story unfolds in 1973, and it is not written in any book, although it is possible that the complete details exist in some secret document, buried in some box in the National Archive. Barely any t...

On Thursday morning, September 4, 2025, two Venezuelan Air Force F-16A Fighting Falcons lifted off from El Libertador Airbase in Palo Negro, their Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-200 engines cutting through t...

Air power history, broadly defined, is almost as old as the application of air power itself. While histories were produced during the First World War, after the war, nations such as Great Britain w…

The April 1930, edition of the Bulletin of the Pan American Union noted that: “The shortest air line in Latin America, and possibly in the world, is that of the Isthmian Airways (Inc.). Passengers and...

It could just be a simple story of a pilot running his airplane out of gas and ditching in the blue Western Atlantic Ocean, bobbing around in the warm water awaiting a rescue that would never come. Or...

Between September 1, 1932, and May 25. 1933 Colombia and Perú fought an undeclared war over a large portion of territory between the Caquetá and Putumayo rivers, in the western Amazon Forest. The conf...

On the night of May 23, 1946, the thunderous noise of engines startled the sleep of Aruba's inhabitants. A large airplane was flying over the island, but the pitch-dark night made it impossible to see...

This story actually had its beginning, for this student of the subject, in 1958 when, by the Grace of God, my mother managed somehow to conjure up the $20 necessary for the purchase of a copy of Willi...

The Mexican Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Mexicana, FAM) has a long history of combat aviation dating back to the early 20th century. However, it wasn't until 1945 that Mexico established its first properly...

For nearly six decades, Transportes Aéreos Militares Ecuatorianos (TAME) stood as a unique pillar of Ecuador's aviation sector. Unlike traditional civilian airlines, TAME was born from and remained un...