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The A-7 Iron Hand Mission that protected the Alpha Strike launched on May 10, 1972, over North Vietnam
Each A-7 pilot fired one preemptive Shrike, but someone in the group, who had probably forgotten the pre-briefed plan, called, ‘SAM!’ Someone else correctly...
The A-6 Intruder that lost control on the USS Midway’s flight deck, crashed into parked aircraft, and burst into flames
An A-6 Intruder returning from a night bombing mission with two 500 lb. bombs still attached to her wings crashed on landing, hurtling toward...
The wing-to-wing in-flight refueling procedure of the Soviet Tu-16 Badger medium bomber
There was a joke in the Soviet Air Force that you could identify the pilot of an in-flight refueling-capable Tu-16 Badger medium bomber by...
The low-level flight tactics devised to allow Soviet M-4 and 3M Bison bombers to penetrate the NATO air defense system
Between January and August 1964, a research program was held to investigate the possibility of maximum-range flights of Tu-95 and 3M bombers at 50-200...
George ‘Bud’ Day, the first jet pilot to survive a ‘parachute-less’ ejection
In the search for an appropriate call sign for the Commando Sabre sorties, Maj. George ‘Bud’ Day remembered a song he had liked in...