Historic Wings
Historic Wings is an online aviation adventure and pilot magazine featuring stories about airplanes, helicopters, jets, and everything that flies -- bringing history to life, with stories from both the past and present.
== To understand the present and to predict the future, we must first remember the past.
Above all, what matters are the people, not just the aircraft and technologies that make flight possible. They took risks and achieved extraordinary things, taking us from the ground to the stars. The pilots, inventors, pioneers, and others who have taken to flight changed the world -- and for the better.
Thank you for your patronage! We hope you enjoy your time at Historic Wings! Please visit us online at HistoricWings.com. Historic Wings is one of the most venerable and first aviation websites online. While our YouTube channel was started in 2021, we have been publishing online since October 1997.
Welcome!
Thomas Van Hare
Publisher & CEO
Исторические крылья в прямом эфире — подкаст «Зона контроля» с Cardboard Commander!
Mission Impossible -- Italian Style
The Original Batman - a flight before the Wright Brothers
Air Race Over Germany - wait, are those Messerschmitts?
2024 Publication Plan for Historic Wings!
What's That? -- "Wholesome Finnish Madness"
SOE: Lysander — Руководство по настройке игры
How to Play! MAG-23 Guadalcanal Gameplay & Play-Through
First Off at Pearl Harbor - a story of bravery, a Navy Cross for Ensign Wes Ruth on December 7, 1941
Scale Models at C4-OPEN - Amazing model building in Sweden at Scandinavia's Friendliest Show
Celebrating 25 Years of Historic Wings – A short history and a major announcement!
Chaos Pilots in Ukraine -- How drones are changing the face of modern war and defeating the Russians
The B-17 "Rose of York" - In Honor and Remembrance of Queen Elizabeth
Ukraine’s HARM Mystery – How "Top Gun" enabled Ukraine to use HARM Missiles in the War-PLEASE SHARE
The Greatest Escape -- Debunking one of the Second World War's urban legends -- Lt. Bruce W. Carr
To India by Air - How aviation united the British Empire
Phantom UFO Airships – How UFOs saved thousands of lives during the First World War
It was the Fourth of July -- a Pilot Story from the Vietnam War
Spray and Pray -- Russian Helicopter Tactics in the Ukraine War
Open Skies -- Russian Threats in the Baltic and Sweden's Response
Arte dell'Aquilone -- Rarely Seen Italian Wartime Aviation Artwork
Missile Mail – a Government Boondoggle that Crashed to Earth
Leaflets Over Havana – How Brothers to the Rescue Papered Havana
Bomber Diplomacy – War in Ukraine, B-52s, and Tu-22 Bombers
Happy Holidays - a message from the Afghans to all those who have helped save their lives.
The Mystery of Argo 16 -- Of Secret Societies and Sudden Plane Crashes
Armageddon and Coffee – How one man saved the world from nuclear war
The Saqqara Bird - Were the Ancient Egyptians the first to fly?
Hold My Beer – The World's First Aerial Refueling
The Swedish Bomb (Part 2) - The Bomb in Stockholm's Basement (the 4th largest nuclear armed nation)