What did the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber’s leadership think of the aircraft? The B-17 Flying Fortress is among the most well-known aircraft ever produced. When the British Royal Air Force…
The crews of the SR-71 Blackbird remember the KC-135Q Stratotanker crew with gratitude for their attention to their safety The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird requires JP-7 fuel, which the KC-135Q variant…
The video in this post was captured on board the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CV-43) and shows a mishap on CAT-3 as an F-4B Phantom II of VF-151 is…
The Blackbird’s cockpit needed to be rearranged prior to the aircraft’s first flight, but the cost was high and it wasn’t functional. The SR-71 Blackbird collected intelligence during its service…
If the Horten Ho 229 was intended to be a low-drag bomber as well as possess stealth capabilities, it would put it roughly 30 years ahead of its time The…
At the Edwards AFB Open House Airshow on October 9, 1999, an SR-71 Blackbird made its final flight The brief video in this post, which was recorded on Saturday, October…
‘The only chance we had was the relatively small turning radius of our slow plane compared to that of the fast B-17, said Lt. Hitsuji, H6K ‘Mavis’ flying boat pilot…
On June 21, 1941, Galland had blasted a Spitfire out of a formation northeast of Boulogne. He watched the flaming Spit spiraling down and began following to accurately register the…
A first-hand account of F-14 aircrew operations during a critical special ops mission in western Iraq All three Tomcat units in the NAG (VF-154 having arrived with CVW-5, embarked aboard…
Chandler was falling through a three-foot hole that the 57 mm bullet had made in the weapons control booth of the AC-130A “Spectre 17” in addition to causing structural damage…