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F-105 loss rate threatened entire SEA Thud Force

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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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The only EF-10 Skyknight pilot to conduct strafing missions during the Vietnam War

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B-52 Stratofortress: The Complete Guide to the Eternal Bomber

From a 1948 Dayton hotel-room sketch to a flight plan that runs through 2050: history, specs, combat record and legacy The last B-52 left Boeing's Wichita...
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The backbone of the U.S. strategic bomber force For seven...
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Stealing a jar of the deceased U-2 pilots’ mascot’s testicles and taking them Mach 3+ in an SR-71

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The first sr-71 to use the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System to photograph Soviet submarines

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Santa Claus assists flight operations on board USS George Washington aircraft carrier

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When Grumman flew F-14A No. 3 with the starboard wing locked fully forward and the port wing swept fully aft

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

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

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

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AAR Air-to-air refueling (AAR) is a force multiplier. It enables aircraft...

Why the Blackbird had to refuel right after takeoff (and it’s not because it leaked fuel)

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KC-135Q A team of Lockheed personnel, led by Clarence "Kelly"...

Belmont 86 is the SR-71 that made an emergency landing in Norway after spying over Murmansk

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“My call sign was ‘Belmont 86’ and my transmissions...

F-14 Tomcat Top Speed: What Happened When a RIO Pushed His Jet Past Mach 2.34

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‘That jet accelerated like it was blasted out of...

Landing a Tomcat with a full load of 6 AIM-54 Phoenix missiles on the aircraft carrier

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The AIM-54 Phoenix The AWG-9 weapons control system and P&W...

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USAF Awards Boeing $55 Million Contract to fix Too Stiff KC-46 Refueling Boom

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The Government Accountability Office said in a June report...

Richard Bong, America’s Top Ace, used his P-38 to shoot a crocodile to protect his comrades

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America’s Top Ace Richard Bong Richard "Dick" Bong enlisted as...

US Navy F-14 pilot recalls when his Tomcat on FAC(A) mission coordinated surgical strikes from USAF A-10s, RAF Tornado GR 4s and US Army...

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FAC(A) mission Navy and Marine Corps units have always been...

A naval aviator remembers when his carrier spotted two Soviet Tu-95 bombers due to their sloppy radio usage

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Fighter pilots do not chat with each other in...