The Imperial Japanese Navy carrier Ryujo was a unique, one-off hybrid of a cruiser hull with an aircraft carrier superstructure grafted on to it The Imperial Japanese Navy carrier Ryujo…
Brigadier General Fred Castle was flying as a copilot in the lead B-17G Flying Fortress with the 487th Bomb Group, 1Lt. Robert W. Harriman, and their skilled lead crew of…
The head of the then-Sukhoi OKB convinced the Russian Federation’s President to select his firm’s designs as the country’s principal fighter aircraft during negotiations with post-Soviet Russian President Yeltsin Having…
The fuel flow controller on the F-4 Phantom II had NEVER broken down. It wasn’t mentioned in the flight handbook, the book of emergency procedures, or anywhere else The McDonnell…
Without radar, how does the A-10 Warthog’s CCIP gun/rockets mode calculate range and impact point? A calculation produced by a weapon’s sighting system is known as a Continually Computed Impact…
VMA-214 was renamed VMFA-214 as part of the switch from the AV-8B Harrier to the F-35B Lightning II On March 25, 2022, Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Yuma, Arizona, held…
Jackie Cochran broke the sound barrier on May 18, 1953, and she set a record for women’s absolute speed of 652.337 mph A jet sped through the desert close to…
On November 25, 1944, the kamikaze campaign had just been going for a month. The US Navy’s Fast Carrier Task Force was the primary target of the Japanese, who mainly…
‘During my three years at Ellsworth Air Force Ease I had two events that I call outstanding,’ A/1C Ralph Whitaker (Ret.), B-36 Electrical Gunner Upper Responding to the US Army…
During the harshest period of the Cold War, the SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3 + spy plane crew used some unusual equipment while flying through Soviet-controlled airspace The SR-71 Blackbird collected…