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…
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.…
“Keeping the Phantom in that position for about six or seven minutes, my navigator and I grinned at the cameras, struck tops of our bone domes lingeringly and flamboyantly, offered…
The F-4 Phantoms have to take off during Zulu Alert Scrambles within five minutes of the horn going off The stunning video in this post, which was shot in a…
“For 15 years (1977-92) sitting 24-hour air defense – codenamed Zulu – alert was a fact of life for an Eagle Driver at Bitburg,” Doug Dildy, former F-15 Driver “For…
When the Dornier Do 217 used the radio-guided, free-fall “Fritz X” weapon to sink the Italian battleship Roma, it made aviation history by being the first military aircraft to use…