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In the early hours of April 27, 2017, U. S. Army Rangers, of the 75th Ranger Regiment were on a mission against the Commander of ISIS in Afghanistan. They soon found themselves nearly surrounded in a pitched battle and fighting for their lives. In a desperate call for air support, two F-16’s from the 79th Fighter Squadron, known as “The Bold Tigers,” entered the intense...
On the morning of September 11, 2001, as the FAA were trying to track several suspected hijacked airliners, the first jet fighters scrambled to assist were F-15’s from the Massachusetts Air National Guard.
A 102nd Fighter Wing F-15 arrives over the World Trade Center shortly after both towers were struck. The flight leader for the mission was Lt. Col. Tim “Duff”...
''If you had the height, you controlled the battle. If you came out of the sun, the enemy could not see you. If you held your fire until you were very close, you seldom missed’'
These three basic rules contributed to the prowess in aerial combat of some of the most successful fighter pilots in history and seldom were they more valuable than...
Captain Dean Eckmann of the 119th FW, North Dakota Air National Guard, makes his first pass over the Pentagon near Washington DC, on September 11th, 2001, following the terror attack. Scrambled from Langley AFB, VA, Capt. Eckmann led a flight of three fully armed F-16 aircraft to provide the first combat air patrol (CAP) over Washington, DC on that fateful day. In this dramatic portrayal,...
Robert Taylor's wonderfully realistic painting captures the very essence of an epic day during the Battle of Britain. A Heinkel III has been brought down, one of many never to make it home on this bright and sunny day. As the Luftwaffe bomber's crew emerge from their broken aircraft, relieved to have survived the crash-landing, a Mk I Spitfire from No 66 Squadron roars low overhead to verify...
Flying a Bristol F.2b fighter, Lt. Andrew McKeever and his gunner Lt. Powell of 11 Squadron RFC, successfully engage German Albatross D.V fighters over the Western Front near Cambrai, 30 November 1917.
McKeever, a Canadian volunteer, was the squadron’s top Ace, scoring most of his 31 victories on the Bristol Fighter, or the “Biff” as it was affectionately known by...
They were one of the great fighter units of World War II. Led by the audacious Douglas Bader - who had lost both his legs in a pre-war flying accident - the Spitfire Wing at Tangmere was in the thick of the action during the tumultuous aerial battles that took place over the Channel and Pas de Calais in 1941. Duelling on a daily basis with the cream of the Luftwaffe, especially the pilots of...
A Lancaster of No. 61 Squadron, RAF, piloted by Flt. Lt. Bill Reid, under attack from a German Fw190 en route to Dusseldorf on the night of November 3rd, 1943. Already injured in a previous attack, Bill Reid was again wounded but pressed on for another 50 minutes to bomb the target, then fly his badly damaged aircraft on the long journey home. The...
The air war fought throughout World War II in the night skies above Europe raged six long years. RAF Hurricanes sent up to intercept the Luftwaffe's nightly blitz on British cities had no more equipment than the fighters that fought the Battle of Britain during the day, but as the scale of nightly conflict developed, detection and navigation aids - primitive by today's standards - were at...
A Soviet Yak 3 hurtles towards us in a typically daring head-on attack on a Bf109. Other Yaks wheel and turn frantically in search of the enemy. Casualties on both sides are evident. Away into the distant horizon stretches a vast Russian sky, painted in Robert’s inimitable style: soon all will be quiet again until the next ferocious...
