The SR-71 remained the fastest and highest-flying operational aircraft for approximately 24 years of its life It was a different era in 1976. Americans were waiting to buy as the…
History
The Wild Weasels allow access to these contested areas, which are characterized by multiple integrated air defense systems on modern battlefields Airpower emerged as a substantial and expanding danger to…
The Cactus Air Force, which was primarily equipped with the rugged Wildcat fighter and the unrivaled Dauntless dive bomber, successfully repelled every Japanese onslaught Control of Henderson Field was at…
“The pilot hovered at about 50 feet, kicking up a lot of dust and making a racket. All the Air Force guys came running out to see what was going…
Airshows
At the 2011 Avalon Air Show, the iconic Qantas Super Constellation Airliner spewing flames from her engines.
Setting the engines to run rich, or with a high fuel-to-air ratio, produces this stunning image The Lockheed Constellation, often known as “Connie” by her aircrews, was a four-engined propeller-driven…
Several fighters have gotten the moniker “flying coffin” over the course of the last century of military aviation. Military aviation inevitably tests the limits of available technology and human endurance,…
During F-14 days, VF-101 aircrews were required to fly the Tomcat at air shows in order to exhibit the F-14 flight features The Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 101 was reinstated…
The first reports mentioned that the rotors of the AH-64D Apache clipped a mountain ridge in Logar Province (east Afghanistan). The two crew members of a US Army AH-64Dnattack helicopter…
Carriers
“Abe’s” Extraordinary Odyssey: The Story of the Longest Deployment for an Aircraft Carrier in Post-Vietnam Military History
17 years ago, USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) embarked on the longest deployment for an aircraft carrier in post-Vietnam military history. On Apr. 1, 2019, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham…
The B-52B of the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History is the only BUFF that has ever dropped an atomic bomb The Boeing B-52B Stratofortress serial number 52-0013, which…