After having been surrounded, the Dolphin surfaced to indicate that it was abandoning the mission and moved away from the Algerian coast. The story of an unusual incident that allegedly…
“Some Eagle pilots mockingly suggested we should paint our aircraft like submarines: ‘Just think: That brief hesitation as he thinks What’s that submarine doing up there?’,” Robert “Scout” Winebrenner, former F-15C…
In his open-top Tornado XZ630, BAe Test Pilot Keith Hartley conducted the “cockpit habitability trial.” British Aerospace (BAe) Test Pilot Keith Hartley is shown in the unusual images in this…
Civil
L-1011 TriStar pilot tells the story of when he and his entire crew were fired with no notice in the middle of a transatlantic flight
A pilot is usually fired either before or after a flight, even if there is a third pilot on board (for rest breaks) to fill the seat. ‘A pilot is…
I have a semi-confirmed report from a woman who lives in the Philippines that one of the SR-71 #974 ejection seats is at the Mayor’s house! On Apr. 21, 1989,…
The statement “China has the largest navy in the world” is largely misleading and used mainly for sensationalist headlines. Since the release of the Department of Defense’s “2020 China Military…
History
The F-15 BAZ Fighters’ transformation into bombers and their longest airstrike in IAF history
Many people still mistakenly assume that the F-15s used in Operation Wooden Leg were F-15E Strike Eagles, but the strike package was created by IAF F-15Cs and Ds that had…
The most concerning MiG-25 reconnaissance trip had place on October 10, 1971, when two Foxbats flew at Mach 2.5 and extremely high altitudes parallel to the Israeli and Sinai Mediterranean…
Carriers
US Navy E-2 NFO explains why the Hawkeye is the first aircraft to be launched from aircraft carriers (Not because it’s the long-range eyes of the carrier group)
The Handler and his minions hate having the E-2 moving around the flight deck. The E-2 Hawkeye is the Navy’s all-weather, carrier-based tactical battle management airborne early warning, command, and…
“With no forward visibility from the back seat, my RSO was looking through his view sight and had picked up the sequence of flashing lights beneath the aircraft. It was…