The Story of The Four Horsemen, the USAF C-130 Demonstration Team
During one performance, the number three Hercules lost one of the outboard engines which had to be shut down. The crew feathered the prop and continued with the air show…
During one performance, the number three Hercules lost one of the outboard engines which had to be shut down. The crew feathered the prop and continued with the air show…
Stenciled on the tails of VF-1’s Wichita 103 were the words “El Coyote”. This Tomcat scored the first recorded air-to-air kill against an Iraqi helicopter in Desert Storm. After a…
One maneuver is likely to be modified or dropped: one proposal is for the diamond and solos to each drop one maneuver in order to streamline the show and improve…
Some of the women that participated in the flyover were individually coached by Rosemary Mariner The U.S. Navy will say goodbye to its first female fighter pilot on February 2…
Heavy destruction of German industrial resources was achieved during the Battles of the Ruhr and Hamburg in 1943, but only at the cost of a steadily increasing loss ratio, especially…
O’Hare rejected the Congressional Medal of Honor recommendation made by Frederick Sherman, the captain of the Lexington, saying that any one of his squadron members would have taken the same…
Chuck Yeager, the first person to ever go supersonic in 1947, escorted the DC-8 during its supersonic flight in an F-104 On Aug. 21, 1961, a jet designed for commercial…
The all-time B-26 mission record went to FLAK BAIT with no less than 202 sorties The much-despised B-26 Marauder, the medium bomber “workhorse” of the Ninth Air Force, bounced back…
“When you watch the ground footage from the pedal turn, it’s almost unbelievable to witness what you’re seeing,” Capt. Andrew “Dojo” Olson, F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team pilot Capt. Andrew…
The Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missile was used in this 35-hour mission under the codename Operation Senior Surprise, also known as Secret Squirrel The crews at Barksdale Air Force Base…