Because of relatively lax RoE, the F-4 crew was able to pursue the MiG beyond the 20th parallel Although the F-4 Phantom II was the most significant fighter-bomber to be…
Col. John “JB” Stone came up with the idea for the strategy that would later play a crucial role in aviation history over a few inexpensive beers with Olds and…
Because it was a hybrid made of the first YF-12A’s rear fuselage and a functional engineering mockup of an SR-71A forward fuselage created for static testing, SR-71C S/N 61-7981 was…
The six-on-six missile shoot was seen as a major success because it showed that the AIM-54 Phoenix missile and the F-14 Tomcat were both ready for active service The F-14…
“I’d had absolutely no idea that Tower Bridge would be there. It was easy enough to fly over it, but the idea of flying through the spans suddenly struck me.…
The F-14 was shown to be much better than the F-111B and a few other aircraft in a comparison study between the F-14 (at the time, Grumman’s design of a…
Olds downed a MiG-21, and his 8th TFW F-4 aircrews downed six additional aircraft, or over half of the VPAF operational force, without sustaining any USAF losses As the U.S.…
The goal of CONSTANT PEG was to instruct combat fighter pilots from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Marine Corps on how to engage MiGs in aerial combat…
The painters made an approximation of the F-4’s camouflage scheme using a schematic from an outdated technical order The 45th annual Freedom Flyer Reunion of the 560th Flying Training Squadron…
Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished in 1937 while attempting to fly around the world in a Lockheed Model 10-E Electra over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island…