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French Mirage III buzzed a U-2 over France’s nuclear sites
After climbing to an altitude of 45,000 ft (13,716 m), the French pilot engaged his SEPR booster, which accelerated his Mirage to Mach 1.8...
Outdated WWII tactics and Soviet-Manned SAMs: How 15 B-52s were shot down in Operation Linebacker II
While the Soviet SAMs, AAA, and Russian advisors had a lot to do with shooting down 15 B-52s and damaging several more, some guilty...
Project Bullet: John Glenn’s transcontinental air speed record in the RF-8 Crusader
Only a few high-performance fighters have enjoyed simultaneously important combat careers, the secondary role usually being in an area for which they were never...
USAF F-4E WSO explains why a 13-hour Phantom II flight was so difficult
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The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II was a tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic interceptor and fighter-bomber first designed for the U.S. Navy by...
Remembering the RAAF F-111 Aardvark
“Do you realize the Australians have a bomber that can put a bomb through that window onto the table here in front of us?”...