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…
Full-sized mockups of the SA-43 Hammerhead were built. They were realistic enough that the Russian Intelligence got a satellite picture of one on the dock somewhere in California and had…
It was based on the CF-105’s future potential, more than its then-current design, that it was considered a contender for the OR.329/F155T interceptor requirement. Investment in the RAF fell away…