As far as is known, this was the first time an Iraqi pilot had ever encountered the US Air Force’s stealth fighter In answer to an Air Force request for…
A Taiwanese pilot flew the longest B-17 Flying Fortress mission, which lasted more than 19 hours, over China One of the most recognizable aircraft ever constructed is the Flying Fortress.…
Eight C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, seven KC-10 Extender aircraft, and one C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft were used by Team Travis to transport 10,310 refugees and 2 million pounds of airlifted…
Since they flew too high to be seen or heard, B-52 bombers became one of the Viet Cong’s most feared weapons The Stratofortress flew her first combat missions as a…
‘I’m tremendously thankful to have flown both and while the Hornet got me in and out of combat, I’ll always have a special place in my heart for the venerable…
Photographed on July 19, 1957, the first and only live test of a USAF Genie rocket with a nuclear warhead is shown in the video in this post, which was…
‘He started to suck on it. Luckily, he realized his mistake in a split second and spit it out in horror before it could take effect. Had he bit down,…
In the fall of 1954, Meteor F8 WK935 joined the Institute of Aviation Medicine after being chosen for modification The ‘prone position’ Meteor, which is depicted in the images in…
During World War II, the Pacific theater saw the bulk of the use of B-29s. Up to 1,000 Superfortresses dropped bombs on Tokyo at once, destroying major portions of the…
The B-17G Flying Fortress “Wee Willie” was destroyed after completing 128 missions The main image in this post is “Wee Willie,” a Boeing B-17G-15-BO Flying Fortress 42-31333, going down after…