To congratulate him on saving his aircraft, the young EA-6B Prowler pilot was called to the pilot’s house to meet with his CO, the Air Wing Commander, and the Boss…
No story on the SR-71 would be complete without an understanding and appreciation of just how valuable the KC-135Q model tankers and their crews were to the successful and safe…
‘“Beautiful, beautiful, come back and do another one,” the tower controller said,’ Maury Rosenberg, SR-71 Blackbird pilot The Lockheed A-12 and YF-12A aircraft served as the foundation for the development…
Members of the SR-71 Blackbird crew have reported that on occasion, they came down in search of a tanker, not so much because they were running out of gas but…
The only Eagle to record two MiG-29 kills, F-15C #86-0156, was retired to the US Air Force National Museum on April 25, 2023 As seen in the video in this…
‘It was thought if the Chance Vought XF8U-3 Super Crusader where to have gone into production it would have been powered by a J58,’ Jim Goodall, former Master Sergeant at…
‘We had been conducting operations at low level (200–300 feet) in the Norwegian Sea when we received a message over our broadcast that Bears would be transiting our area from…
“In military power, we would start to fall off the boom. The solution was to light one afterburner with careful finesse,’ Brian Shul, former SR-71 Blackbird pilot The Lockheed A-12…
‘I identify the target on the radar for a LADD attack [‘toss bombing’] and actuate the Run-in Timer according to my radar display,’ Lt A. Hartl, Luftwaffe F-104G Starfighter pilot…
‘While we were doing this search for airplanes, a couple of squadrons were coming back from Vietnam and were being decommissioned. They had the A-4F, which was the latest model…