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US Navy F-8 pilot on blind refueling in the Crusader

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The only RF-101 Voodoo ever downed by a North Vietnamese MiG

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Why the SR-71’s limiting speed was Mach 3.55

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Target Port Stanley: the Black Buck 1 mission, the first RAF Vulcan raid during the Falklands War

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F-105 loss rate threatened entire SEA Thud Force

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From a 1948 Dayton hotel-room sketch to a flight...

RAN A-4 pilot scores simulated kill against RAAF F-111

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F-105 loss rate threatened entire SEA Thud Force

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Flying the B-52: Why the BUFF is worth the challenge

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When the IAF was embarrassed by a Syrian Air Force MiG-23 pilot’s defection to Israel

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The VF-1 Wolfpack?s Desert Storm Kill

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The USAF General who killed the SR-71 program because he was denied to fly it

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How the SR-71 Blackbird used fuel to control heat

The Blackbird The SR-71 was the most advanced aircraft in...

The only RF-101 Voodoo ever downed by a North Vietnamese MiG

The story of the only RF-101 ever downed by...

How a North Vietnamese MiG-21 pilot was able to shoot down a USAF B-52 during Operation Linebacker II

“I launched two heat-seeking missiles from a distance of...

One of the first ever laser-guided bomb runs during the Vietnam War

‘A 2,000-pound bomb impacted exactly in the center of...

F-15C Eagles protected the air assets from the MiG-31s

Even though KAL 007's wreckage had fallen in the...

In the 1980s, empty C-5 airlifters had to carry a rock in their cargo bay

Jay Lacklen Jay Lacklen concluded his service in the Air...

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