The SR-71’s engineering was so advanced that new tools had to be created in order to build the Blackbird The SR-71 Blackbird collected intelligence in some of the world’s most…
Erich Hartmann would only have barely a second to get out of the way before colliding with the enemy Erich Hartmann, a German fighter pilot during World War II and…
The SR-71 Blackbird pilot Brian Shul on May 20, 2023, in Reno, Nevada, unexpectedly passed away at the age of 75 due to a cardiac arrest At the age of…
Owen J. Baggett pulled out his service pistol, a Colt.45, at the perfect moment. He fired four shots, striking the Japanese pilot in the head and bringing the Zero down…
In September 1985, an F-15 Eagle managed to destroy a machine orbiting Earth. But it wasn’t the Death Star mobile space station Designed to achieve and preserve air superiority, the…
The only Eagle to record two MiG-29 kills, F-15C #86-0156, was retired to the US Air Force National Museum on April 25, 2023 As seen in the video in this…
A-12 pilot Jim Eastham dropped the nose down a bit to see if he could at least reach Mach 3.0. Out of nowhere, Jim hit good air and in the…
Ford re-drew the blue-prints for the Merlin, making it more suitable for mass production, and by 1944, over 400 engines a week were flowing out of the plants The Rolls…
The sunset/night photoshoot featured not only the Panavia Tornado GR1T ZA319 but also the Hawk T1 XX154 and the English Electric P.1 WG763 The Panavia Tornado GR1T, ZA319, Hawk XX154,…
Despite the fact that C-141 StarLifter aircraft had conducted many military and humanitarian missions, none were more important than the Hanoi Taxi mission President John F. Kennedy declared August 23,…