Since his childhood, Randy Malmstrom has had a passion for aviation history and historic military aircraft in particular. He has a particular penchant for documenting specific airframes with a highly ...

If you know about the Polikaprov PO-2 biplane, it's probably because it was one of the few airplanes in the War Thunder video game to ever be so useless, the game devs had to remove it from the Soviet ...

Sometimes slow is better, and the Polikarpov PO-2 trainer aircraft proved that during WWII when it became famous for two things: its unique engine sound and its night-time bombings. Weirdly, this ...

No biplane has been produced in greater numbers than the Po-2, with estimates of the total number-built ranging from **20,000 up to 30,000**. The Po-2/U-2 is often overlooked but was a significant ...