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A cap flown by two Royal Navy Sea Harrier Fighters during the Falklands war
The Sea Harrier's Extra Dark Sea Grey color scheme, which made it very difficult to see over land or sea, earned it the nickname...
A US NAVY RA-5C Vigilante captured an image of an SA-2 missile passing 104 feet from its belly
Although the most plausible explanation is that the missile had not reached its arming time when it shot past the crazily jinking RA-5C, no...
The Air America UH-1D Huey that shot down a North Vietnamese AN-2 Colt Biplane
When the AN-2 pilot was forced to slow down, Woods fired an AK-47 rifle from his UH-1D helicopter at Colt's cockpit, causing it to...
The close call in 1969 off the Korean Peninsula that nearly triggered WWIII
“This is the Chief-of-Staff: Launch the alert five.” Immediately above, on the flight deck, we could hear the A-6 engines starting.
An unarmed EC-121 propeller-driven...
The story of the X-15, which set the highest speed ever for a manned aircraft
The Hot Peroxide warning light on Knight's X-15 turned on when he was doing some rudder pulses to collect data with the yaw damper...