Marta Bohn-Meyer, the only female crew member to fly in the SR-71 Blackbird
Congresswoman Beverly Byron was the only female woman to have flown on the legendary SR-71 Blackbird; she did it as a VIP guest in 1985 The photos in this post…
Congresswoman Beverly Byron was the only female woman to have flown on the legendary SR-71 Blackbird; she did it as a VIP guest in 1985 The photos in this post…
‘Unfortunately, on the day Vega 31 would be taken out of the sky, the [EA-6B] Prowlers were grounded due to weather. The decision was made for the F-117s to fly…
As seen from the right waist of an accompanying B-17, this 463rd Bomb Group Flying Fortress received a direct hit beneath the pilot’s feet from what is believed to have…
The first airliner to reach supersonic flight was not the Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-144 or the well-known Concorde, which wouldn’t break the sound barrier until a test flight in October 1969.…
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 J58 turbine’s blades could withstand temperatures much higher than those of the Soviets, thanks to their technology. Consequently, the SR-71 Blackbird outperformed the MiG-25 Foxbat in terms of speed.…
Beginning in the 1980s, four manufacturers offered models of the F-19 Stealth Fighter: Revell, Monogram, Italeri, and Testors The first operational aircraft in the world built to take advantage of…
Test Pilot Norvin C. “Bud” Evans, in 1956, examined the effect of atmospheric nuclear testing on the most durable aircraft in the USAF inventory by piloting his specially modified F-84…