The background to Dale “Snort” Snodgrass’ renowned super-low Banana Pass
“This photo indeed has a surrealistic quality. I believe it is due to the focal length of the camera used. There is no doubt that this pass was an aggressive…
“This photo indeed has a surrealistic quality. I believe it is due to the focal length of the camera used. There is no doubt that this pass was an aggressive…
QRA launches were frequent to intercept Argentinian Boeing 707 or Lockheed Electra Elint aircraft, however, sometimes other aircraft blundered into the Falkland Island Control Zone… First flown in November 1985,…
The prisoners who operated the gun turrets claimed that they couldn’t spin their turrets quickly enough to take one of those creatures out The Me 262 Schwalbe, which was created…
The key structural element of an F-14 is its wing box. It is an electron beam welded titanium box that keeps the wings firmly attached to the rest of the…
“If I had been superstitious at all, I probably wouldn’t have flown the mission at all. Every one of the previous F-111s lost had a call sign ending in 3,…
The MiG-21s received new registration numbers, were in flight-ready condition, and might be used for vintage flight According to The Hindu, India gave three MiG-21 aircraft to Russia when Russian…
In late January 1965, VMCJ 1 marked a single EF 10B Skyknight with some interesting graffiti that raised eyebrows both in the USSR and at home. The Douglas F3D Skyknight…
“How about solid waste? We just had to control any urges. There was occasional incidents; no names mentioned here!” Richard H. Graham, SR-71 pilot In the following story, which appears in Col.…
HMS Queen Elizabeth has been kitted out with specially-designed LED lighting on her flight deck to aid nighttime landings Taken on Oct. 3, 2018, the amazing pictures in this post…
Captain Sam “Slammer” Richardson forced the MiG-29 pilot to call “Knock it off.” Afterward, he said the Fulcrum pilot could only talk about how he lost the fight against the…