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Why the SR-71 had to light one afterburner during aerial refueling
“The fine art of pulling the throttle ever so slightly up and just into the minimum burner range was handed down from one generation...
When US Navy F-4s scored kills against brand-new USAF F-15s in mock air combat
Holloman had just received the new F-15A Eagle and didn’t know how to use it yet. Thus, the old hats in the F-4s cleaned...
A video celebrates the 80th anniversary of MiG
In total, domestic aircraft building plants have manufactured about 45,000 aircraft of the “MiG” brand, of which 11,000 have been exported.
The interesting video...
Wynn Foster, the A-4 pilot who evaded North Vietnamese AAA
‘I realized I had been hit and looked down at my right arm. The arm was missing from the elbow down, and half my...
The SR-71’s BDA flight over Libya in Support of Operation El Dorado Canyon
‘The take seemed normal as we made our hard right turn towards Tripoli, and we were tuned for the SA-5 site at Sirte. Again,...