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Why the SR-71 Blackbird airframe was designed to leak fuel
Pooling under the SR-71 Blackbird, it was assumed that it had a mechanical flaw. No way, this was planned!
Over its nearly 24-year service life,...
How fighting against “VIFFing Harriers” taught Eagle Drivers to win air engagements against fighters with thrust vectoring
‘VIFF stood for “vectoring thrust in launch forward flight” and entailed rotating the variable angle jet nozzles mounted to the sides of the fuselage...
The F-14 posed such a serious threat to the Soviets that they once tried to recover one that fell off the USS John F....
The Soviets tried to go fishing for an F-14 that fell off the USS John F. Kennedy in 1976—after the plane’s control systems went haywire and...
The EA-6B ALQ-99 jamming pods emissions caused the RHAW gear of F-14s to go crazy
EA-6B Prowler crews were prohibited from deploying the full power of ALQ-99 during peacetime exercises.
Although evaluations of what particular aircraft types can or...
The Argentine Navy could have been the first export customer for the Harrier Jump Jet
The UK was not against a Harrier sale, as the situation regarding the Malvinas/Falkland Islands was relatively satisfactory at that time
By 1963, the Argentine...