As part of its 20th-anniversary commemoration efforts for 9/11, the Eastern Air Defense Sector arranged for a unit photograph to be taken at the nearby Griffiss International Airport on June…
“Talking to Lockheed engineers later, they determined there was a good possibility if we had gone supersonic, the entire nose section might have imploded from the supersonic shock wave,” Col. Richard…
The “Project Moonflower” program intended to sell the F-117 stealth fighter to the United Kingdom when it was still a top-secret aircraft According to recently declassified documents made available by…
On a combat flight over Vietnam, an antiaircraft fire hit the RA-5C and caused damage The striking photo in this post, which was taken on August 18, 1968, depicts a…
The 12 F-4G aircraft of the U.S. Navy were to test a new tactical camouflage for aircraft that were boarded in 1966 Twelve F-4Bs were removed from the McDonnell production…
Under specific circumstances, F-14 and F-15 fighters were capable of simulating SR-71 kills The SR-71 Blackbird collected intelligence during the course of its 24 years of service in some of…
It was the only occasion an A-4 Skyhawk from the Royal New Zealand Air Force had opened fire in anger When Jim Jennings fired a warning shot over the bow…
As of March 2017, the X-15’s official world record for the fastest time has not been broken The amazing photograph in this article shows the first of four captive-carry flights…
The P-38 absolutely purrs out there with 1300 hp in each engine, making flying it feel like you were driving a Cadillac On October 3, 2016, retired Maj. Earl Conrad…
Aviem Sella returned from missions over Egypt three or four times a week, flying low over Haifa to let his lecturers know he would soon be attending their classes The…