When four F-104s were training for the type’s “introduction-into-service” demonstration in June 1962 and crashed in formation, killing all four pilots, it was a very terrible start for the Starfighter…
The F-16 program changed the fighter forces of the USAF The 388th Fighter Wing (FW), now more well known as the Viper, was to be the first squadron to switch…
Instead of an accidental combining of two planes in midair, the Germans believed the “Piggyback” was a brand-new eight-engine warplane that the Allies had developed! Germans believed it to be…
Before an estimated 35,000 spectators, the British Airways and Air France Concorde supersonic aircraft approached from the south and touched down next to each other less than two seconds apart.…
The F-22 Raptor’s already impressive capabilities can be improved by the F-15 Eagle This post’s stunning video is a tribute to the amazing F-15 Eagle. The F-15A/B/C/D is an all-weather,…
Cold War
The RAF Phantom crew disguised as an Aeroflot flight to intercept a Soviet Il-62 Classic spy plane
“Keeping the Phantom in that position for about six or seven minutes, my navigator and I grinned at the cameras, struck tops of our bone domes lingeringly and flamboyantly, offered…
Military
F-22, F-35, Eurofighter, and Rafale aircraft stationed at Joint Base Langley-Eustis for the second trilateral exercise
The 2017 Atlantic Trident included the RAF Eurofighter Typhoon, the FAF Dassault Rafale, the USAF F-22 Raptor, and the F-35 Lightning II. After the first trilateral exercise, which took place…
Helicopters
Why an attack helicopter with a terrain mask can withstand missiles but not tube artillery
There are many scenarios in which tube artillery can engage attack helicopters. Sometimes called helicopter gunships because of their heavy armament, modern attack helicopters have two primary roles: first, to…
The F-4 Phantoms have to take off during Zulu Alert Scrambles within five minutes of the horn going off The stunning video in this post, which was shot in a…
The helicopters showed a 25% improvement in range as a result of the fuel tanks, which are installed underneath both sides of the chopper bays and look like torpedoes Marine…