Ivan Mikoyan was twice awarded the USSR State Prize for creating the MiG-29 Ivan Mikoyan, the MiG-29’s co-designer and Artem Mikoyan’s nephew, passed away on November 25, 2016, at the…
More effective than the renowned Japanese A6M Zero, the F6F Hellcat downed 5,156 enemy aircraft in just two years, accounting for 75% of the Navy’s aerial wins throughout the war…
The F-16 has advanced capabilities comparable to those of fifth-generation aircraft like the F-22 and F-35 thanks to the APG-83 AESA radar, which replaced the earlier APG-66 and APG-68 radars…
The F3D Skyknight downed numerous MiG-15s made in the Soviet Union, yet it never acquired the fame of the North American F-86 Sabre The amazing image in this post depicts…
A flaw was found in the batch of suits NASA was producing for the pilots before the launch of Columbia on the first shuttle mission (STS-1). Since 1941, the David…
When four F-104s were training for the type’s “introduction-into-service” demonstration in June 1962 and crashed in formation, killing all four pilots, it was a very terrible start for the Starfighter…
The F-16 program changed the fighter forces of the USAF The 388th Fighter Wing (FW), now more well known as the Viper, was to be the first squadron to switch…
Instead of an accidental combining of two planes in midair, the Germans believed the “Piggyback” was a brand-new eight-engine warplane that the Allies had developed! Germans believed it to be…
Before an estimated 35,000 spectators, the British Airways and Air France Concorde supersonic aircraft approached from the south and touched down next to each other less than two seconds apart.…
The F-22 Raptor’s already impressive capabilities can be improved by the F-15 Eagle This post’s stunning video is a tribute to the amazing F-15 Eagle. The F-15A/B/C/D is an all-weather,…