‘Out of control, I reached for the “D” ejection handle between my legs. I grasped it but did not pull it, as I realized that being inverted, the ejection would…
The A-12 Oxcart was a super-secret, single-seater spy plane and was more secret and much rarer than the SR-71. The SR-71 was actually developed from the A-12. It is well known that the…
‘The Phantom was one of those planes where it seemed the faster it went, the faster it wanted to go, and the Hornet was not,’ said Travis Brannon, a former…
Ken Collins appeared to be very drunk as the sodium pentothal was still in his system. His wife Jane was a very understanding woman, her husband couldn’t offer any explanation…
The SR-71 Blackbird made the trans-Atlantic flight to be featured in the Farnborough Air Show as a static display. This marked the first time the Mach 3+ spy plane was…
The nickname for the USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier became “The Can Opener” and for good reason. The USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) aircraft carrier (on the evening…
The boomer told the KC-135 pilot to push over into a dive – probably 10 to 20 degrees nose low and then talked him into position in front of the…
The Skyhawk For more than ten years, France was Israel’s primary supplier of weapons. However, by the middle of the 1960s, it was determined to acquire advanced and powerful US…
Lieutenant Colonel William H. Rankin fell from 47,000 feet into “one of the most violent storms ever recorded on the East Coast,” parachuted over 65 miles in 40 minutes, and…
Above Mach 2.2, some of the airflows are bled from the fourth stage of the compressor and dumped into the augmentor inlet through six bleed-bypass tubes, circumventing the core of…