Stenciled on the tails of VF-1’s Wichita 103 were the words “El Coyote”. This Tomcat scored the first recorded air-to-air kill against an Iraqi helicopter in Desert Storm. After a…
Airshows
Blue Angels Diamond and Solos could each drop one maneuver after Team’s Transition to Super Hornet
One maneuver is likely to be modified or dropped: one proposal is for the diamond and solos to each drop one maneuver in order to streamline the show and improve…
Some of the women that participated in the flyover were individually coached by Rosemary Mariner The U.S. Navy will say goodbye to its first female fighter pilot on February 2…
Heavy destruction of German industrial resources was achieved during the Battles of the Ruhr and Hamburg in 1943, but only at the cost of a steadily increasing loss ratio, especially…
O’Hare rejected the Congressional Medal of Honor recommendation made by Frederick Sherman, the captain of the Lexington, saying that any one of his squadron members would have taken the same…
Chuck Yeager, the first person to ever go supersonic in 1947, escorted the DC-8 during its supersonic flight in an F-104 On Aug. 21, 1961, a jet designed for commercial…
The all-time B-26 mission record went to FLAK BAIT with no less than 202 sorties The much-despised B-26 Marauder, the medium bomber “workhorse” of the Ninth Air Force, bounced back…
Airshows
Minimum Radius Turn to High Alpha Loop, Pedal Turn are some of 14 maneuvers performed by F-35A Demo Team to showcase the full envelope of the Lightning II
“When you watch the ground footage from the pedal turn, it’s almost unbelievable to witness what you’re seeing,” Capt. Andrew “Dojo” Olson, F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team pilot Capt. Andrew…
The Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missile was used in this 35-hour mission under the codename Operation Senior Surprise, also known as Secret Squirrel The crews at Barksdale Air Force Base…
The BOAC 747 was the first aircraft to feature a popular British Airways historical design British Airways stated on January 21, 2019, that a Boeing 747 was painted in the…