In the early 1980s, the Night/Adverse Weather A-10 was renamed the YA-10B In the 1970s, the A-10 Thunderbolt II, popularly referred to as the Warthog was developed to offer close…
“As a veteran of many missile shots, both AIM-9 and AIM-7, this was the most challenging due to the speeds involved and the parameters of the test” I was a missile…
We spoke with CAPT Bill “Striker” Switzer, a former Navy fighter pilot who has carrier landings in three legendary fighters – F-8, F-4, and F-14 – for his candid and…
“While the mass contacts of 60…70…80 (who knows?) contacts which, as if raging bulls bent on widespread death and destruction, bore down on my sole Lightning, I spoke with the…
As the final F-16 Block 52 tail wing in Air Force inventory, the vertical stabilizer from the crashed aircraft will be a valuable asset if it is determined that it…
Ivan Mikoyan was twice awarded the USSR State Prize for creating the MiG-29 Ivan Mikoyan, the MiG-29’s co-designer and Artem Mikoyan’s nephew, passed away on November 25, 2016, at the…
More effective than the renowned Japanese A6M Zero, the F6F Hellcat downed 5,156 enemy aircraft in just two years, accounting for 75% of the Navy’s aerial wins throughout the war…
The F-16 has advanced capabilities comparable to those of fifth-generation aircraft like the F-22 and F-35 thanks to the APG-83 AESA radar, which replaced the earlier APG-66 and APG-68 radars…
The F3D Skyknight downed numerous MiG-15s made in the Soviet Union, yet it never acquired the fame of the North American F-86 Sabre The amazing image in this post depicts…
A flaw was found in the batch of suits NASA was producing for the pilots before the launch of Columbia on the first shuttle mission (STS-1). Since 1941, the David…