Although the most plausible explanation is that the missile had not reached its arming time when it shot past the crazily jinking RA-5C, no one is certain why it did…
When the AN-2 pilot was forced to slow down, Woods fired an AK-47 rifle from his UH-1D helicopter at Colt’s cockpit, causing it to spin out of control and crash…
“This is the Chief-of-Staff: Launch the alert five.” Immediately above, on the flight deck, we could hear the A-6 engines starting. An unarmed EC-121 propeller-driven aircraft was shot down by…
The Hot Peroxide warning light on Knight’s X-15 turned on when he was doing some rudder pulses to collect data with the yaw damper off following the burnout at a…
Although it wasn’t intended, the Mohawk actually shot down a MiG during the Vietnam War During the Vietnam War, the OV-1 was responsible for the U.S. Army’s air-to-air win. The…
From a distance of more than 100 kilometers, the F-14 Tomcat launched one AIM-54A. (60 miles). The MiG-25 Foxbat was soon closed in on by the missile, which smacked into…
On May 4, 1999, a Serbian MiG-29 piloted by Lt. Colonel Pavlovic targeted an RAF E-3D aircraft flown by a No. 23 Squadron crew During Operation Allied Force, the RAF…
On July 28, 2006, Lieutenant Chris Rattigan and Lieutenant Paul Dort of VF-31’s “Tomcatters” flew the F-14D BuNo 164346 “Sweet Little Miss” to perform the final scheduled arrested landing of…
“… The cadets now had 107 feet of fire-breathing titanium in their faces as the SR-71 leveled and accelerated, in full burner, on the tower side of the infield, closer…
The tail section of the All American fuselage was saved by a few thin spars and a thin strip of metal skin after the Me 109’s wing nearly cut through…