‘Airspeed indicators were on one side, attitude indicators were on the other, altimeter gauges were in the middle, and we couldn’t even tell what time it was. It was a…
Robbie Risner attempted to push 1st Lt. Joseph Logan’s F-86 toward Kimpo by having Logan turn off his engine and sticking his own Sabre’s nose into Logan’s tailpipe Prior to…
The famous “howl” of the Vulcan engine was heard for the last time and anyone who wanted to hear it could stand on a road outside Doncaster Airport where it…
The least visible shape produced at the Skunk Works was a thousand times more visible than the F-117A Nighthawk shape The first operational aircraft in the world built to take…
In 1990, five miles off the USS Independence, a USAF B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber requested permission to do a fly-by. The carrier accepted the request but stated that there was…
Yes, this really happened. Once more, truth is way funnier and stranger than fiction The pictures in this post show the US Navy Douglas A-1H Skyraider (NE-572, BuNo 135297) of…
In contrast to the F-4’s “all-weather interceptor” role, the Phantom made many of its early cruises as paired squadrons with F-8 units, which were considered “day fighter” (or, in the…
On November 6, 1944, US Navy F6F Hellcat pilots encountered a Japanese fighter they could not identify while conducting a fighter sweep over the airfields north of Manila The F6F…
The US Air Force (USAF) retired its fleet of SR-71s on January 26, 1990, although the U-2 is still in use today Before Gary Power’s U-2 was shot down, development…
‘To keep the bad guy off his feet, the first officer threw the FedEx DC-10 cargo aircraft into all sorts of maneuvers, including inverted flight,’ Keith Shergold, former airline transport…