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Furthermore, out of those five million flying hours, 1.3 million were spent in combat Five million flight hours have been completed by US Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, marking a…
‘I will say this—and I know a lot of other Navy guys that would say the same thing—my fun meter was probably most pegged flying the A-4 Skyhawk,’ Jim Danhakl,…
‘The F-4 was an awesome aeroplane in combat. It could even push a 28,000-lb aeroplane on a piece of one-inch-thick glass,’ Bob Pardo Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) Robert Pardo is renowned…
The campaign was simple: you could collect points from Pepsi labels by buying Pepsi products. Once you collected points, you could claim prizes like t-shirts, sunglasses, or, for 7 million…
Since the Cessna 172 Skyhawk production began in 1956, over 43,000 units have been built, primarily for flight schools where it is commonly used for Private, Commercial and Instrument Rating…
This post’s video features some interesting clips of the incredible Convair B-36 strategic bomber landing and taking off The cool video in this post shows some neat clips of the…
‘Within seconds, the F-14 Tomcat rotation rate shot up to 180deg/sec and g forces reached 7.8g eyeballs-out! My head was slammed against the instrument panel and my mask and eyes…
“I looked at our rapidly increasing airspeed as we neared the end of the runway, and Crush yanked back on the stick to launch us into a steep nose-high climb,”…
The odd photos in this post show an F-15 Eagle fighter jet carrying an AIM-54 Phoenix long-range air-to-air missile The Hughes AIM-54 Phoenix missile was the US Navy’s only long-range…
‘Seriously – getting an E-2 “up” and in position for launch makes moving everything else around the flight deck more difficult,’ Andy Burns, US Navy Flight Officer with under 1500…