The nation’s highest award was given to B-17 pilot 1st Lt. William R. Lawley Jr., for his gallantry, while flying a Flying Fortress bombing mission over Leipzig as part of…
Capt. Dethlefsen received the Medal of Honor for demonstrating exceptional bravery above and beyond the call of duty. On February 1st, 1968, President Johnson made the presentation in the White…
“Ultimately, all of the U.S. airlines canceled their orders for the Concorde for economic as well as environmental reasons. John Anderson and I were tremendously disappointed,” Paul Roitsch, Captain with…
The SAC briefly used the XB-36 as a training aid in June 1948 while awaiting the production of the 7th Bombardment Group’s first B-36A Consolidated Vultee (later Convair), in response…
“I didn’t think anything like this could exist. The intensity of the response coming from the ground was incredible,” l’Armée de L’Air Jaguar pilot. A dozen SEPECAT Jaguar A strike-fighters…
A RAF F-35B Lightning from RAF Marham along with a USAF B-1B Lancer and an F-15 Strike Eagle aircraft for multiple flypasts in the UK on February 1, 2022, to…
In the past, a flight engineer’s position was used in the design and construction of the majority of bigger aircraft, both military and civil A flight engineer (FE), commonly referred…
On April 19, 1972, the threat of an enemy aerial attack on US Navy ships off the coast of North Vietnam really materialized US Navy ships operating off the coast…
It was not uncommon for airmen to strike or become hooked on their aircraft during the Second World War It was not uncommon for airmen to strike or become hooked…
After the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Israelis dispatched an F-4 crew to TOPGUN New tactics are acquired in battle, lost or discarded when conflict is over, and relearned at…