Luftwaffe Bf 109s Vs USAAF P-38s Following Operation Torch in 1942, USAAF fighter pilots encountered a baptism of fire while flying the highly sophisticated P-38 Lightning over North Africa. Their…
F-16 honoring Robin Olds This post has an intriguing photo that was taken on September 17, 2023, at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea. It shows an F-16C Fighting Falcon…
The strangest aerial engagement of the Vietnam War What was maybe the most peculiar aircraft combat of the Vietnam War occurred in late February 1968 over the triple canopy jungle…
F-14 shooting down RF-4C A US Air Force (USAF) RF-4C Phantom II was shot down by a US Navy F-14 Tomcat on September 22, 1987, over the Mediterranean during NATO…
The P-47 Thunderbolt One of the most well-known fighter aircraft of the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) during World War II was the P-47, affectionately known as “Jug.” The P-47…
The SR-71 Blackbird The US Air Force (USAF) created the SR-71 Blackbird in the 1960s; it was a plane that could move at a speed that exceeded three times the…
B-17 belly gunner Alan E. Magee On January 3, 1943, 360th Bomber Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, aboard the B-17F Flying Fortress 41-24620 “Snap! Crackle! Pop!”, with Sergeant Alan E. Magee…
Taliban attack on Camp Bastion In response to the 9/11 attacks by Al Qaida, US and British forces invaded Afghanistan in late 2001, supported by air power. Ten years later,…
The F4F Wildcat When the US Navy and US Marine Corps (USMC) went to war in December 1941, their primary carrier fighter was the tubby Wildcat, the first of Grumman’s…
The F-15 Streak Eagle was designed to break the time-to-climb records held by the F-4 and MiG-25 by setting new ones The F-15 proved to be a highly useful testbed…