“The Bastard,” the only SR-71C ever built
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…
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…
Maj. Maury Rosenberg, the SR-71 pilot, and Maj. E. D. McKim, the RSO, were heading southwest on their final pass over the DMZ when North Korea launched two Soviet SA-2…
The F-117 Nighthawk was so covert that it was referred to it as a UFO in Nevada legend The F-117 Nighthawk, a highly classified aircraft that Nevadan folklore referred to…
As 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the RAF, the purpose of that flight was to honor “The Few” (the pilots), as well as the many (ground crew, fabricators), and…
“‘Cobber’ Kain was 73 Squadron’s most split-arse pilot. He often led a section 40 miles or more into Germany, regardless of the fact that it was against orders to cross…
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…
On February 14, 1955, Colonel Georgy Mosolov made the first flight of the storied MiG-21 fighter prototype Soviet test pilot Georgy Mosolov passed away in Moscow on March 19 at…
The painters made an approximation of the F-4’s camouflage scheme using a schematic from an outdated technical order The 45th annual Freedom Flyer Reunion of the 560th Flying Training Squadron…