A-6 Intruder and F/A-18 Legacy Hornet are like a ’65 Ford F-100 and a ’84 Pontiac Fiero
‘I’m tremendously thankful to have flown both and while the Hornet got me in and out of combat, I’ll always have a special place in my heart for the venerable…
‘I’m tremendously thankful to have flown both and while the Hornet got me in and out of combat, I’ll always have a special place in my heart for the venerable…
Photographed on July 19, 1957, the first and only live test of a USAF Genie rocket with a nuclear warhead is shown in the video in this post, which was…
‘He started to suck on it. Luckily, he realized his mistake in a split second and spit it out in horror before it could take effect. Had he bit down,…
In the fall of 1954, Meteor F8 WK935 joined the Institute of Aviation Medicine after being chosen for modification The ‘prone position’ Meteor, which is depicted in the images in…
During World War II, the Pacific theater saw the bulk of the use of B-29s. Up to 1,000 Superfortresses dropped bombs on Tokyo at once, destroying major portions of the…
‘Here’s the story behind one of my selfies that has gotten much more exposure than I ever expected. (Exposure, get it?),‘ Dave “Bio” Baranek, former F-14 Tomcat RIO A selfie…
The B-17G Flying Fortress “Wee Willie” was destroyed after completing 128 missions The main image in this post is “Wee Willie,” a Boeing B-17G-15-BO Flying Fortress 42-31333, going down after…
‘A guy who received his wings at the same time as I did was in the F-4 training squadron with me. Being new to the aircraft, and especially one with…
The picture in this post features the clearest image to date of China’s future carrier-borne stealth fighter known as the J-35 Surfaced last week on Chinese social media Weibo and…
F2H pilot tells the story of when he flew the longest non-stop Banshee flight off of and back onto a carrier The F2H Banshee, McDonnell’s FH-1 Phantom’s successor, was chosen…