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Remembering the first Phlight of the Phabulous Phantom

With the US Air Force joining the Navy and Marines and realizing the potential of the Phantom's versatile load-carrying capability and performance, the Phantom...

Israeli pilots went to TOPGUN and taught instructors tactics for F-4 versus MiG-21

After the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Israelis dispatched an F-4 crew to TOPGUN New tactics are acquired in battle, lost or discarded when conflict...

The most thrilling one-on-one naval aircraft duel ever took place between Showtime 100 and Colonel Toon

Although Toon now appears to have been a propaganda mashup of multiple excellent North Vietnamese pilots, the Showtime 100 crew met a fantastic dogfighter...

The “Top Gun from Down Under,” Clive Robertson “Killer” Caldwell, is the most Australian thing ever

Clive Robertson "Killer" Caldwell, a flying ace, merciless killer, bootlegger, mutineer, prosperous businessman, and national hero, embodies all that is uniquely Australian The most successful...

Jet ace Giora Even-Epstein talks about his friendship with US Navy’s ace Randy Cunningham

Duke took me on a visit to TOPGUN and I got to meet with the pilots there. The meeting was planned to last just...

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When the two-seat TA-4F Skyhawk went to combat from a carrier flight deck

The Navy had developed a hand-held laser, which allowed...

When the USAF used F-101 Voodoo debris to conceal an F-117 Nighthawk crash

The crashed F-101 Voodoo had been in storage at...

Why SR-71A #61-7959 was the only Blackbird to feature a special “Big Tail”

The new ‘Big Tail’ assembly would be 13 feet...

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