A pilot is usually fired either before or after a flight, even if there is a third pilot on board (for rest breaks) to fill the seat. ‘A pilot is…
I have a semi-confirmed report from a woman who lives in the Philippines that one of the SR-71 #974 ejection seats is at the Mayor’s house! On Apr. 21, 1989,…
The statement “China has the largest navy in the world” is largely misleading and used mainly for sensationalist headlines. Since the release of the Department of Defense’s “2020 China Military…
Many people still mistakenly assume that the F-15s used in Operation Wooden Leg were F-15E Strike Eagles, but the strike package was created by IAF F-15Cs and Ds that had…
The most concerning MiG-25 reconnaissance trip had place on October 10, 1971, when two Foxbats flew at Mach 2.5 and extremely high altitudes parallel to the Israeli and Sinai Mediterranean…
The Handler and his minions hate having the E-2 moving around the flight deck. The E-2 Hawkeye is the Navy’s all-weather, carrier-based tactical battle management airborne early warning, command, and…
“With no forward visibility from the back seat, my RSO was looking through his view sight and had picked up the sequence of flashing lights beneath the aircraft. It was…
Although Toon now appears to have been a propaganda mashup of multiple excellent North Vietnamese pilots, the Showtime 100 crew met a fantastic dogfighter that day Lt. Randy “Duke” Cunningham…
As a result of the MiGs’ superiority against Luftwaffe pilots in World War II, the Air Force was obliged to stop using Superfortresses for daytime bombing flights and limit their…
British Airways Boeing 747 flight BA 009, flown by Captain Eric Moody, lost thrust from all four engines at 37,000ft. In the past 40 years, several jet-powered commercial airplanes have…