The US Navy P-3 pilot who was able to land his Orion with two engines out on the same wing

The P-3 Orion Far from the coastline, the P-3 Orion...

Bell AH-1Z Viper Program Completion and International Deliveries

The completion of AH-1Z and UH-1Y deliveries to the...

Formation of the 82nd Airborne Division’s Anti-Aircraft Battalion

Origins of American Airborne Forces In summer 1942, the 82nd...

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F-4 crew members who ejected twice from a Phantom II were grounded and never flew an F-4 again

For USAF F-4 crew members who ejected a second...

JP-7, the fuel that caused a nationwide shortage of bug spray

The SR-71 Blackbird In the 1960s, the United States Air...

The US Navy P-3 pilot who was able to land his Orion with two engines out on the same wing

The P-3 Orion Far from the coastline, the P-3 Orion...

A Crusader driver who hit the ramp and ejected on a F-8 pilot’s initial Night Qual

F-8 Crusader pilot Charlie Glasscock Aviation seems to be populated...

The US Navy P-3 pilot who was able to land his Orion with two engines out on the same wing

The P-3 Orion Far from the coastline, the P-3 Orion patrols rough, deep seas where the threat of a hidden enemy submarine lurks below the surface....

Randy Cunningham recalls the epic dogfight that made him America’s first Ace pilot

The F-4 Phantom II Originally designed as a high-altitude interceptor,...

The Tupolev Tu-135 Mach 3 bomber, the Soviet XB-70 Valkyrie that never was

The XB-70 Valkyrie The advanced XB-70 was first conceived in...

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Eagle Vs Foxbat: when USAF F-15s dogfighted with Iraqi (or Russian) MiG-25s

‘I looked at him more closely and saw that...

The VFA-87 F/A-18E Fitter Killer (and additional information about the Syrian Su-22 shot down)

The two F/A-18E Super Hornet pilots “did everything they...

Axis pilots tested captured Allied aircraft and considered them negatively

‘The Spitfire handles well, is light on the controls,...

HISTORY

Cold War

Military
AVIATION WINGS

B-29 dropping the VB-13 Tarzon bomb, the American guided variant of the British 12,000-pound Tall Boy

The VB-13 Tarzon was essentially a British 12,000-pound Tall...

The Lockheed XF-90 “penetration fighter,” featured on the cover of the comic book Blackhawk

The Lockheed XF-90 “penetration fighter” was the first US-built,...

How to get better gas mileage in a Blackbird flying at Mach 3

SR-71, KC-135Q and JP-7 If not for air refueling, the...

The F-106 “supercruised” before the F-22

“The 106’s speed and range gave us the ability...

When a C-5 driver performed a high-speed flyby over Joe Biden’s house

To find out who the hell tried to tear...

The only SAM that had a chance to hit the SR-71 was a nuclear S-300 fired ahead of the Habu

The Blackbird The Lockheed A-12 and YF-12A aircraft served as...

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How IRIAF F-14 crews learned to shoot down the MiG-25 Mach 3 Fighter Jet

From a distance of more than 100 kilometers, the...

How US Navy F-14 Tomcat crews learned to score simulated Gun Kills against the lethal 9G-Capable F-16N

In a close air-to-air combat scenario, who will win?...

AFSOC Grounds CV-22 Osprey Fleet after two incidents of “hard clutch engagement” in the past six weeks

A hard clutch engagement involves the clutch connecting the...

When the only two Tupolev Tu-16 airstrikes against Israel were carried out by the Iraqi Air Force

Both Israeli Mirage pilots were scared away by Tupolev...