Col. John “JB” Stone came up with the idea for the strategy that would later play a crucial role in aviation history over a few inexpensive beers with Olds and…
Because it was a hybrid made of the first YF-12A’s rear fuselage and a functional engineering mockup of an SR-71A forward fuselage created for static testing, SR-71C S/N 61-7981 was…
Maj. Maury Rosenberg, the SR-71 pilot, and Maj. E. D. McKim, the RSO, were heading southwest on their final pass over the DMZ when North Korea launched two Soviet SA-2…
The six-on-six missile shoot was seen as a major success because it showed that the AIM-54 Phoenix missile and the F-14 Tomcat were both ready for active service The F-14…
Senior Captain Stefan Darte ‘Vador’ will fly the Dark Falcon for the next three years Taken on Apr. 23, 2018, by Andrew Timmerman from Finn Aviation Photography, the cool photos in…
The F-117 Nighthawk was so covert that it was referred to it as a UFO in Nevada legend The F-117 Nighthawk, a highly classified aircraft that Nevadan folklore referred to…
“Southwest 1380, we’re single engine. We have part of the aircraft missing so we’re going to need to slow down a bit,” Tammie Jo Shults, Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 pilot…
“We were not aware at that time of the firestorm, but we did realize that the target was well and truly alight, for as we looked back even halfway across…
Tibbets came over to us and said ‘there is a new bomb under construction and, if successful, it will shorten the war’ Tech. Sgt. Brandon Shapiro first published the following…
The V1 flying bomb was an early cruise missile and the first production aircraft to use a pulsejet for power Taken on Apr. 5, 2015, the gorgeous video in this…