June 2025

The Superfortresses Stalin Kept
How four American bombers that never came home helped launch Soviet strategic air power
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Patrick Kinville
The Soviet Zveno Project: When Bombers Carried Fighters Into Battle
In the 1930s, the Soviet Union tested and deployed parasite aircraft for long-range attacks—culminating in real combat during World War II.
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Patrick Kinville
Handley Page Hampdens in Soviet Hands
How two squadrons of discarded British bombers found new purpose under Soviet command
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Patrick Kinville

May 2025

Skies Over a Shattered Empire: The Life of Iosef Bashko
A pilot’s path through war, revolution, and the collapse of Imperial Russia
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Patrick Kinville
The Skyborne Spectacle: Tupolev’s ANT-20 Maxim Gorkii
How the Soviet Union’s airborne colossus dazzled the public before disaster struck
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Patrick Kinville
The Forgotten Heavyweight: Curtiss’s XP-62 and the End of the Line
How a promising high-altitude interceptor was outgunned by bureaucracy, engine shortages, and the tide of war
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Patrick Kinville
The Trainer That Did the Impossible: When a Wirraway Shot Down a “Zero”
How an Australian pilot in a slow, obsolete aircraft pulled off the RAAF’s most improbable air-to-air kill of the war
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Patrick Kinville

April 2025

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