South Korea’s first indigenously developed fighter jet, the KF-21, has been unveiled. This is a significant milestone for South Korea’s aviation and military sectors. The single-engine FA-50 Golden Eagle was…
Former F-14 Pilot Explains How He Managed to Land His ‘Missing Radome’ Tomcat aboard USS Eisenhower
‘We were going about 600 knots at 28,000 feet, so it was a loud boom, explosive decompression, and the airplane was damaged, a lot of glass in the cockpit, a…
The T-28 was a trainer aircraft produced for the US Air Force by North American Aviation. The T-28 served as the primary jet trainer for the United States from 1949…
Here are some interesting facts about aviation listed by a user on Quora: During WWII, Russian fighter pilot T. Kuznetsov flew himself home after being shot down by stealing a…
As explained by a military expert user on Quora, German technology produced the V1, essentially the first “cruise missiles,” after the conflict. (The V2 was the first ICBM ever built.)…
Amazing aircraft on display at the one and only public air show in XB-70 Valkyrie history
The XB-70 Valkyrie AV/2 would only leave and land at Carswell AFB before being destroyed on June 8, 1966, as a result of an unintentional mid-air collision The interesting photo…
Crazy Video Shows Massive An-124 Cargo Aircraft Crosswind Landing With Nose Gear First
The video in this post features a crosswind landing performed by a massive Antonov An-124 and is definitely one of the craziest landings ever filmed. Taken on Mar. 13, 2019,…
The modified F-8 Crusader used as a testbed for fly-by-wire tech
The fly-by-wire systems currently used in space shuttles and in modern military and civilian aircraft were inspired by the F-8 DFBW system The F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire (DFBW) aircraft’s control system…
On ending of the Great War, American fighter ace Eddie Rickenbacker was flying
“Suddenly gray uniforms mixed with brown. I could see them hugging each other, dancing, and jumping. Americans were passing out cigarettes and chocolate,” Eddie Rickenbacker, World War I fighter ace.…
The F-14s’ spin issue made it difficult for them to engage in a dogfight successfully A line of post-Vietnam fighters began with the Grumman F-14 Tomcat and included the F-15…