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The Avro CF-105 Arrow
It seems everyone’s father or uncle or sister’s husband worked at one time on the Arrow Project. Like in Ottawa, where everyone’s mother babysat...
The mystery of air battle of el-Mansourah
Even the Egyptian Air Force is not teaching its own pilots about any kind of an Air Battle of el-Mansourah.
It seems there can be...
When a USAF F-15 hit another F-15 with an AIM-9 over Alaska
The F-15 pilot took evasive action but was unable to avoid the attack completely. He was not injured, but his jet fighter suffered a...
VMFA-122 ‘F-4V,’ the USMC Phantom II with a unique 3-gun pod configuration
“If one gun was good, three were better.” Col Jacques Naviaux, VMFA-122
No fewer than 11 US Marine Corps (USMC) squadrons flew versions of...
The SR-71 “Ichi-Ban:” the Blackbird that was buried at Sea
‘The remains of SR-71 Ichi-Ban were buried at sea with full military honors. The occasion occurred at 1157 hours on Christmas Eve of 1989,’...