When the Hunter pilot who flew over Tower Bridge to commemorate the RAF’s 50th anniversary
“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.…
“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The painters made an approximation of the F-4’s camouflage scheme using a schematic from an outdated technical order The 45th annual Freedom Flyer Reunion of the 560th Flying Training Squadron…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…
“The Patriot is by far the most lethal SAM system in the world, and there is no aeroplane in existence that is going to get away from it. The missile…
The USAF decided to purchase the F-105 Thunderchief after giving the F-107A production significant consideration The successful F-100 Super Sabre was developed into the North American F-107A Ultra Sabre in…
“We heard the first explosion, then a second, and then a third. The Taleban was on base and we were under attack. Believe me, there was not a rifle in…
“This is a true testament to the combat survivability of the A-10,” Maj. Gary “Wolfman” Wolf (retired), former A-10 pilot The then-110th Fighter Wing (FW) was operating A-10A Thunderbolt II…