The F-86D Sabre Dog was equipped with an afterburning engine in the form of a General Electric J47-GE-17 turbojet An intelligence warning in 1948 prompted the US Air Force (USAF)…
There were still a lot of hostilities at the time, so the pilots did what is called a falling leaf landing at Herat airport ‘First flight in Afghanistan, 2002. It…
In late January 1965, VMCJ 1 marked a single EF 10B Skyknight with some interesting graffiti that raised eyebrows both in the USSR and at home. The Douglas F3D Skyknight…
One of the unwritten requirements to become an SR-71 Blackbird crew member/maintainer was to have an outrageous sense of humor. The SR-71 Blackbird is still considered the world’s fastest aircraft,…
I have a semi-confirmed report from a woman who lives in the Philippines that one of the SR-71 #974 ejection seats is at the Mayor’s house! On Apr. 21, 1989,…
‘I looked out the left window and saw a French Mirage III sitting ten feet off my left wing. He came up on our frequency and asked us for our…
The X-32 earned the nickname “Monica” after a certain White House intern who was famous for her… Uh… Oratory skills. The Boeing X-32 was a multi-purpose jet fighter in the Joint Strike Fighter…
‘During the last bursts on the leader, gun stoppages occurred. Both port and starboard guns were charged in an attempt to clear them before firing again,’ David McCampbell, US Navy’s…
Top Gun: Maverick trailer in Lego required months of painstaking work to be created. The cool video in this post features a side-by-side comparison between Top Gun: Maverick’s original trailer…
There were plenty of shiny USAF fighters but I knew exactly what he meant. They didn’t count because they were test articles and hadn’t been dirtied up or bloodied. Chuck…