The B-25 bombers were escorted by P-47s belonging to the 57th Fighter Wing’s 66th Squadron. The P-47s’ job was changed to flak suppression after the hostile fighters failed to appear…
‘Usually, the SR-71 Blackbird pilots weren’t a chatty bunch, but I could hear the anxiety in the voice of this one,’ Jody Liliedah, Airman The Vietnam War was still raging…
More than sixty years later, Amerigo Vespucci recreated the moment with the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) in the Adriatic Sea, Sep. 1, 2022 On Jul.…
‘When we went on a combat mission, we carried a sealed letter in our pocket. We were told the letters and who signed them changed from time to time and…
Darkstar is one of several Lockheed Martin aircraft, satellites, and helicopters that do background work for popular movies In the most recent Top Gun: Maverick movie, Maverick flew a hypothetical…
The nation’s first military response to New York on that terrible day was the Massachusetts Air National Guard’s F-15 Eagle fighter jets, even though reports of the hijackings had not…
When one of the unit’s administrative sergeants called the Soviet embassy in San Francisco, he proposed they offer him $100,000 in exchange for some important SR-71 documents What aviation geek…
According to a US Navy legend, a few veteran F-14 pilots pledged to build a monument honoring the first person to score a gun kill in combat Every war begins…
Australia’s attempt to replace the troubled MRH-90 Taipan helicopter with the UH-60M has taken another step forward after the US government approved the potential Foreign Military Sale on Aug. 25,…
Though it’s technically captioned “I’m the one with the part in the back,” the painting on the nose of the B-17 Memphis Belle is frequently referred to as “The Memphis…