This Week’s Hints to help you along: The tail markings are a good tip off that this aircraft is Italian by design. The paint scheme might indicate that it was a Navy Seaplane. It could fly over 1,000 miles in just five hours, ideal for maritime reconnaissance. Only a handful were built, and sadly, the […]
Published June 3, 2012 By Thomas Van Hare Today in aviation history, exactly sixty-four years ago, in 1948, in the clear skies over Israel, the newly formed Israeli Air Force scored its first victories. The small aviation contingent of the newly formed Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had little equipment, no supplies, almost no organization and […]