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The only RF-101 Voodoo ever downed by a North Vietnamese MiG
The story of the only RF-101 ever downed by...
US Navy F-8 pilot on blind refueling in the Crusader
AAR
Air-to-air refueling (AAR) is a force multiplier.
It enables aircraft...
The F-14’s AWG-9 remained the most powerful fighter radar until the F-22’s APG-77 in 2005
When working in Track-While-Scan mode, the AWG-9 emissions were...
A pilot of the F-4 Phantom II recalls an exciting Mach-2 test flight
‘There it is! Mach 2.0, twice the speed of...
When Israeli F-4Es shot down 14 Egyptian Mi-8 helicopters (one by using their afterburner)
On Oct. 6, 1973, the first day of the...
SR-71 pilot set 13 acres of Maryland on fire by dumping fuel after one engine exploded during his last flight
The SR-71 Blackbird
The US Air Force (USAF) created the...
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When Air Traffic Controllers asked an F-14 pilot to buzz the tower so see for themselves a Navy Tomcat
‘Iowa the Air Traffic Controllers could not believe that...
When the two-seat TA-4F Skyhawk went to combat from a carrier flight deck
The Navy had developed a hand-held laser, which allowed...
4 Medal of Honor recipients include a crew chief for a Medevac
Four US Army soldiers who served in the Vietnam...
The U-2 decompression sickness cases increased after the end of the Cold War
The U-2 cruises at 70,000 feet, or at least...