The Hind has been sold to 40 countries and, no, it’s not a joke. The photos in this post feature a Mi-24 attack helicopter in US Coast Guard colors The…
Completing the AH-1Z and UH-1Y deliveries to the US Marine Corps adds one more chapter to the legacy of the H-1 platform In a ceremony at the Amarillo Assembly Center,…
The famous “howl” of the Vulcan engine was heard for the last time and anyone who wanted to hear it could stand on a road outside Doncaster Airport where it…
Airshows
6 Killed After Commemorative Air Force P-63 and B-17 “Texas Raiders” Vintage Aircraft Collide at Wings Over Dallas Air Show
Six people were killed after the P-63 and the B-17 “Texas Raiders” belonging to Commemorative Air Force collided and crashed to the ground on Nov. 12, 2022 afternoon during Commemorative…
History
The F-117 Nighthawk was one thousand times less visible than the D-21 with an RCS of an Eagle’s Eyeball
The least visible shape produced at the Skunk Works was a thousand times more visible than the F-117A Nighthawk shape The first operational aircraft in the world built to take…
Carriers
5 Aircraft Carriers to Operate Together in Europe for NATO Exercise: USS George H.W. Bush and USS Gerald R. Ford will exercise with HMS Queen Elizabeth, ITS Cavour and Charles de Gaulle
US Navy aircraft carriers USS George H.W. Bush and USS Gerald R. Ford will exercise with carriers from France, Italy and the UK as part of a joint operation across…
History
The story of the USAF B-52 Stratofortress Strategic Bomber’s fly-by below the USS Ranger Aircraft Carrier’s flight deck
In 1990, five miles off the USS Independence, a USAF B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber requested permission to do a fly-by. The carrier accepted the request but stated that there was…
History
The US Navy A-1H Skyraider attack aircraft that during the Vietnam War, dropped a toilet bomb
Yes, this really happened. Once more, truth is way funnier and stranger than fiction The pictures in this post show the US Navy Douglas A-1H Skyraider (NE-572, BuNo 135297) of…
History
F-8 Crusader Vs F-4 Phantom II: the “Last of the Gunfighters” and the first “All-Weather Interceptor”
In contrast to the F-4’s “all-weather interceptor” role, the Phantom made many of its early cruises as paired squadrons with F-8 units, which were considered “day fighter” (or, in the…
Cold War
Without fighters on alert, the RC-135 spy plane was forced to intercept a Soviet Tu-95 bomber
‘The RC-135 was diverted to do the intercept. The RC snuck up on the Bear from low rear and then pulled up alongside. It was a surprise to the Soviets,’…