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When a US Navy CO let wives ride in F-4 Phantoms—and things went wrong
‘The third F-4 got airborne for a few feet. However, after touching back down on the runway, the pilot needed to drop his tailhook...
Operation Deep Throat: USAF F-111Fs drop GBU-28s on Saddam’s Bunker at Al Taji
Analysis of the PAVE Tack VCR film showed the GBU-28 impacting at its aim-point, and moments later smoke was seen surging from the bunker’s...
McNamara canceled the YF-12 to fund the F-106X, then canceled that too
Even though the USAF ordered 93 YF-12 aircraft and had an initial budget of $90 million for further testing, this was withheld by Sec....
When Col. Joe Kittinger, Fighter Pilot, POW, and Record Holder, died
Retired USAF Col. Joe Kittinger, whose 1960 parachute jump from almost 20 miles above the Earth stood as a world record for more than...
Operation El Dorado Canyon: F-111 Strike Mission Against Libyan Terrorist Training Camps
F-111F
Originally designated the TFX, or Tactical Fighter “X,” the F-111 was developed to satisfy a U.S. Air Force demand for a new tactical fighter-bomber....