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The first official American aerial victory of the Vietnam war

Murphy and Fegan's kill remained unsubstantiated for many years even if the Chinese claimed the destruction of the F-4 immediately following the fight because...

The Project Blue Book and how UFO sightings covered high-altitude U-2 flights

Numerous U-2 spy planes testing at high altitudes were the primary cause of many UFO sightings reported to Project Blue Book beginning in 1955 Midway...

Brazilian Mirage Fighters intercepted an Il-62 during Falkland War

The two Mirage jets prepped their air-to-air missiles as they both climbed above the clouds and increased their speed from Mach 0.98 to Mach...

A B-1B Lancer doing the first-ever low-altitude terrain following

On December 12, 2017, precisely thirty years later, a B-1B crew successfully fired two LRASMs in production configuration simultaneously during a test at Point...

SR-71 Blackbird spy planes performed Rocket Ride mission

All was calm halfway over the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), but Graham suddenly observed a big object over North Korea that was astonishingly higher than...

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Why the F-4 Phantom is a former US Naval Aviator’s favorite aircraft

‘Although some thought it “ugly”, and it had a...

Sikorsky-Bell V-280 Valor Wins US Army FLRAA Competition Over Sikorsky Defiant XSikorsky

The Bell V-280 defeated the Sikorsky Defiant X in...

Why the F-15 radar couldn’t see the Blackbird during Eagle Bait sorties

‘One of the interesting discoveries from the Eagle Bait...

Why even though the Blackbird could attain Mach 3.5, serious damage to the aircraft might occur

‘The SR-71 could attain Mach 3.5, but the aircraft...

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