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…
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…
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…
Grumman’s $200 billion stealth bomber aims to replace B-52s and B-1s After going almost 35 years with no new strategic bomber, the US Air Force started the Long Range Strike…
The undefeated F-15 Eagle continues to develop and give the US Air Force (USAF) fighter fleet advanced capabilities Irv Burrows, the chief test pilot, piloted the first flight of the…
The B-17 prototype, known as the Model 299, crashed on October 30, 1935, at Wright Airfield in Ohio, killing two of the five crew members on board, including the pilot…