The Sea Harrier’s Extra Dark Sea Grey color scheme, which made it very difficult to see over land or sea, earned it the nickname “La Muerta Negra” (The Black Death)…
A US NAVY RA-5C Vigilante captured an image of an SA-2 missile passing 104 feet from its belly
Although the most plausible explanation is that the missile had not reached its arming time when it shot past the crazily jinking RA-5C, no one is certain why it did…
The Air America UH-1D Huey that shot down a North Vietnamese AN-2 Colt Biplane
When the AN-2 pilot was forced to slow down, Woods fired an AK-47 rifle from his UH-1D helicopter at Colt’s cockpit, causing it to spin out of control and crash…
The close call in 1969 off the Korean Peninsula that nearly triggered WWIII
“This is the Chief-of-Staff: Launch the alert five.” Immediately above, on the flight deck, we could hear the A-6 engines starting. An unarmed EC-121 propeller-driven aircraft was shot down by…
The story of the X-15, which set the highest speed ever for a manned aircraft
The Hot Peroxide warning light on Knight’s X-15 turned on when he was doing some rudder pulses to collect data with the yaw damper off following the burnout at a…
“Center, Aspen 20, you got a ground speed readout for us?’ There was a longer than normal pause … “Aspen, I show 1,942 knots.” No further inquiries were heard on that…
Although it wasn’t intended, the Mohawk actually shot down a MiG during the Vietnam War During the Vietnam War, the OV-1 was responsible for the U.S. Army’s air-to-air win. The…
How IRIAF F-14 crews learned to shoot down the MiG-25 Mach 3 Fighter Jet
From a distance of more than 100 kilometers, the F-14 Tomcat launched one AIM-54A. (60 miles). The MiG-25 Foxbat was soon closed in on by the missile, which smacked into…
The AW101 was delivered less than a month ago to Norway On Nov. 24, 2017, less than a month after it was delivered to Norway, the first AW101 all-weather search…
Cernan concluded his historic space exploration career as commander of Apollo 17, the last human mission to the moon in December 1972 The interesting video in this post is produced…