The SR-71 spy plane The iconic SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, often known as Habu because it looked like the native Habu snake in Okinawa, Japan, holds the official record for…
Cold War
The F-20 Tigershark light-fighter The F-20 Tigershark is a fighter plane that Northrop started developing in 1975. It was intended to be reliable, easy to fly, and inexpensive to maintain.…
Cold War
USMC Technician shares story of damaged UH-60 landing on USS Guam during Operation Urgent Fury
The UH-60 Black Hawk during Operation Urgent Fury In October 1983, the US Army was ordered to launch an immediate military intervention in Grenada, a small Caribbean island nation 70…
One of the most advanced aerodynamic designs of the 1930s The Messerschmitt Bf 109 began as an entry by the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke in a Luftwaffe (German Air Force) fighter competition…
Cyclic operations To land an aircraft on a carrier’s flight deck, which is basically a miniature airfield that is pitching, rolling, and yawing in the rough seas in which these…
Cold War
The only SAM that had a chance to hit the SR-71 was a nuclear S-300 fired ahead of the Habu
The Blackbird The Lockheed A-12 and YF-12A aircraft served as the foundation for the development of the SR-71, also referred to as the “Blackbird” or long-range, advanced strategic reconnaissance aircraft.…
History
When Empress of Britain was crippled by an Fw 200 and sunk by U-32 becoming the largest British ship lost during WWII
Focke Wulf Fw 200 In April 1940, the Focke Wulf Fw 200 Condor made its maiden appearance over Norway while flying with Kampfgeschwader 40 (I/KG40), the unit that would later…
B-26 Marauder 42-107566 The horrific image in this post, which was taken on July 10, 1944, shows a B-26 Marauder 42-107566 after it was struck over Italy. The website of…
History
The Soviet Union was charged $40,000 for the return of the MiG-25 Foxbat stolen by Viktor Belenko
The backdrop Pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko of a PVO unit stationed at Chuguyevka air base, north of Vladivostok (other sources say Sakharovka air base), failed to return from a sortie…
Cold War
While searching for a downed F-105 in Utah, an A-12 pilot came across a brothel with a runway
The Oxcart The A-11 was a long-range, high-altitude aircraft that Lockheed started designing in 1959. It was a project from the Cold War. The project team was led by Lockheed’s…
