“Talking to Lockheed engineers later, they determined there was a good possibility if we had gone supersonic, the entire nose section might have imploded from the supersonic shock wave,” Col. Richard…
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Video released by U.S. Navy of a Russian SU-24 Fencer attack aircraft buzzing the USS Porter
Three Su-24 Fencer attack aircraft and one Il-38 May maritime patrol aircraft were involved in the incident On February 10, 2017, several Russian military aircraft buzzed the U.S. Navy destroyer,…
The “Project Moonflower” program intended to sell the F-117 stealth fighter to the United Kingdom when it was still a top-secret aircraft According to recently declassified documents made available by…
The F-14 flew 28 times from a ski jump but never achieved maximum take-off capability because of single-engine operating concerns The interesting photo in this post was taken in 1982…
Regular transatlantic flights on Concorde took half as long as those on other aircraft The video below, which was recorded on March 2, 1969, shows Concorde 001 making its successful…
On a combat flight over Vietnam, an antiaircraft fire hit the RA-5C and caused damage The striking photo in this post, which was taken on August 18, 1968, depicts a…
Due to the limited size of the U-2 fleet, instrument and general flying training on the T-38 keeps pilots up to date and skilled Above Beale Air Force Base (AFB),…
The 12 F-4G aircraft of the U.S. Navy were to test a new tactical camouflage for aircraft that were boarded in 1966 Twelve F-4Bs were removed from the McDonnell production…
Under specific circumstances, F-14 and F-15 fighters were capable of simulating SR-71 kills The SR-71 Blackbird collected intelligence during the course of its 24 years of service in some of…
It was the only occasion an A-4 Skyhawk from the Royal New Zealand Air Force had opened fire in anger When Jim Jennings fired a warning shot over the bow…