The contract for the first six U-2s the CIA bought is the subject of an urban legend David Peters, an SR 71 pilot, was accepted into the program in 1976…
The P-51 Mustang was mostly used as a long-range escort fighter because of its superb range and maneuverability One of the best and most well-known fighters employed by the US…
“Some Eagle pilots mockingly suggested we should paint our aircraft like submarines: ‘Just think: That brief hesitation as he thinks What’s that submarine doing up there?’,” Robert “Scout” Winebrenner, former F-15C…
Many people still mistakenly assume that the F-15s used in Operation Wooden Leg were F-15E Strike Eagles, but the strike package was created by IAF F-15Cs and Ds that had…
Although Toon now appears to have been a propaganda mashup of multiple excellent North Vietnamese pilots, the Showtime 100 crew met a fantastic dogfighter that day Lt. Randy “Duke” Cunningham…
As a result of the MiGs’ superiority against Luftwaffe pilots in World War II, the Air Force was obliged to stop using Superfortresses for daytime bombing flights and limit their…
The Do 17’s unarmed bombs dropped over London as it disintegrated. One of the two 50-kilogram bombs that were dropped on the grounds of Buckingham Palace landed on the grass…
Robert Powell, the first SR-71 pilot to clock 1,000 hours of flight time in the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at Beale AFB, passed away on August 27, 2021, at the…
‘We do heavy maintenance to the B-52. I mean heavy,’ Darren Dennis, Aerospace Propulsion Apprentice at US Air Force. The B-52 Stratofortress has served as the backbone of the US-manned…
Despite several flaws, the B-58’s pilots and crews were in awe of it. The Hustler represented the apex of a bomber pilot’s career The B-58, the US Air Force’s first…