After piloting every Navy fighter from the Wildcat to the Tomcat, Commander Glenn Tierney concluded his long military career in 1971 By giving combat-tested carrier fighters to the US Navy,…
The Pentagon is collaborating with industry to investigate the idea that F-35s equipped with bombs, missiles, or lasers could shoot down an incoming Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) carrying nuclear warheads…
History
The observation mission to monitor V2 impacts flown by Luftwaffe Arado Ar 234 reconnaissance aircraft
Even though they weren’t as well-known as the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighters, the Ar 234s that made it to Luftwaffe units were outstanding aircraft, especially for reconnaissance The world’s…
The flexible “fluid four” formation flown by USAF pilots was very different from the famed “thatch weave,” or loose “deuce,” formation during World War 2. During the Vietnam War, US…
Skiathos International Airport’s 5,341-foot runway is able to accommodate aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 757-200. Filmed by our friend Dafydd Phillips, the cool video in this post was taken…
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Mike Estocin, the first US Navy jet pilot to ever get the Medal of Honor for a combat mission
Despite the fact that Estocin’s A-4E caught fire on its final approach, he managed to land safely into the barrier, and the fire crew extinguished the flames as he descended…
F-14 Tomcat
[Video] F-14 Pilot who helped film “The Final Countdown” tells the story of when he let the cameraman in the B-25 camera plane touching his Tomcat with his foot in mid flight
The movie company obtained a modified B-25 from Tallmantz Aviation, with a camera in the tail gunner position. The interesting video in this post features Alan “Shoes” Mullen, one of…
F-14 Tomcat
The unknown story of the F-14 Tomcats that diverted to Pakistan during Operation Enduring Freedom
‘As we were in the middle of Afghanistan with not enough fuel to get back to the ship, we put our emergency divert field in Pakistan on the nose,’ Michael…
In September 1941, the Fw 190 entered combat over northwest France and quickly established its dominance over the Mark V Spitfire, Britain’s greatest fighter at the time One of Germany’s…
“The aircraft performed flawlessly during the testing and met all of the program objectives,” said John Biscaino, Sikorsky’s test pilot. Approximately 3,000 feet above the Eglin range, the HH-60W Jolly…