Today in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, I’ll be flying the Supermarine S.5, the British racing plane from the 1920s that pointed the way to one of the most iconic planes of World War II: the Spitfire. This is also the story of the Schneider Trophy, one of the most prestigious prizes in early aviation, which […]

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Today in Microsoft Flight Simulator, I’ll be checking out the F-16. And to get things rolling, I’ll be flying one of its most historic missions: the 1981 Israeli bombing raid to take out Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor. Originally produced by General Dynamics (which has since sold its aircraft business to Lockheed Martin), the F-16 came […]

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