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F-117 pilot on Nighthawk’s nicknames when it was a highly classified program and when its existence became public knowledge

‘Black humor and a lack of restraint are common in the community when it comes to airplane nicknames, so I reckon the F-117 didn’t...

When a USMC F-9 Cougar pilot buzzed the tower of a USAF base

‘He told me he’d debated doing it for about 10 seconds, but being a Marine meant you were compelled to do stuff like that,’...

The man who sued Pepsi for Not Giving him a Harrier Jump Jet

The campaign was simple: you could collect points from Pepsi labels by buying Pepsi products. Once you collected points, you could claim prizes like...

The U-2 pilot who took part in O Club parties wearing fake bad teeth to joke about the ozone level effect

Buddy Brown (Buddy is not a nickname; it’s his real name) was one of a handful of men in the entire world to be...

4 additional M240 machine guns onto HH-60G / HH-60W which currently have 2 guns

The innovative way to bring more firepower to the fight with the HH-60G scheduled to be retired has to be cost-effective and easily transferred...

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George ‘Bud’ Day, the first jet pilot to survive a ‘parachute-less’ ejection

In the search for an appropriate call sign for...

Cobra vs Apache: Two of the world’s premier attack helicopters

Firepower, speed, logistics, and doctrine—how the AH-1Z Viper and...

The Fiat G.91R fighter bombers operated by the Portuguese Air Force in Angola

None of the Fiat G.91R fighter bombers were deployed...

How outdated WWII tactics and Soviet-manned SAMs led to the loss of 15 B-52s in Operation Linebacker II

Seventy-five Airmen died supporting the operation, 33 of whom...

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