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F-105 Vs F-4: Thud pilot recalls flying the Thunderchief in Europe and the rivalry with the Phantom
The Thunderchief in Europe
The F-105 Thunderchief was designed chiefly...
How the SR-71 Blackbird used fuel to control heat
The Blackbird
The SR-71 was the most advanced aircraft in...
The Soviet submarine that almost fired a nuclear torpedo at a US Navy ship during the Cuban Missile Crisis
‘Now let me say something about that Cuban Missile...
How an Israeli pilot was able to land his F-15 Baz with one wing missing
‘I told Yehoar to prepare to eject, but when...
Israeli F-4E crew shot an Egyptian Mi-8, then used afterburner to push it down
Israeli F-4E crews shooting down very low-flying Egyptian Mi-8...
In the early 1960s, the Soviet Union sold titanium to the U.S., thinking it was for pizza ovens, but it was actually used to...
After all, they fraudulently possibly told their comrades that...
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THE STORY OF THE F-14 PILOT THAT WAS ABLE TO LAND HIS TOMCAT WITHOUT CANOPY AFTER HIS BACKSEATER ERRONEOUSLY BAILED OUT
As Vickers started to push on the stick, he...
When a USAF F-15 pilot refused to fly a “not all aspect Sidewinder” mock air engagement against his Skyhawk
The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
2,960 A-4 Skyhawk aircraft were produced...
A former KC-135 pilot describes how his Stratotanker refueled the Tomcat
‘“Where are you, Hey Joe?”
‘“On your nose for three...
The “Messerspit”: when Germans fitted a Spitfire with a DB 605A and found it was better than the Merlin version
A new engine support structure was built onto the...