The S-3 Viking operated day and night from big-deck carriers to track Soviet submarines during the Cold War. The last carrier-based…
Cold War EraMilitary AviationU.S. Navy
- Cold War EraLosses and Aviation SafetyMilitary Aviation
Sandy! How two A-1 Skyraiders provided top Cover for a CSAR Mission to save a Downed OH-6 Crew During the Vietnam War
‘Sandy 07’ assumed on scene command, directing ‘Sandy 08’ to stay high and be alert for SA-7 missile launches while he…
- Military Aviation
The story behind Military aviation salute: the tradition that signals bond between aviator, maintainer
This salute exchange tradition has continued from the Lafayette Escadrille, across services and nations through World War I, World War II,…
- Aviation HistoryMilitary AviationWarbirds
The story of legendary test pilot Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown and the Seafire ‘crabbed’ landing
On most if not all the Seafire carrier tests Brown carried out, he eschewed the curved approach in favour of a…
- Cold War EraF-14 TomcatMilitary Aviation
Former Japanese F-15J Pilot remembers that time US Navy F-14As scored simulated kills against JASDF Eagles with AIM-54 Phoenix missiles from 130 miles instead of dogfighting
Hirosaki Takagi, a former F-15J pilot, explains that the episode took place after a previous DACT session during which JASDF F-15s…
- Losses and Aviation SafetyMilitary Aviation
Oh deer! Watch a family of deer having a near miss with two RAF Typhoon fighter jets
At 9:59 in the clip the animals can be spotted darting across the runway of RAF Coningsby after waiting for the…
- Cold War EraMilitary AviationU.S. Navy
Tomcat finale: the last ever carrier ops of the original F-14A model and why the Fighting Checkmates are the US Navy’s last and only fighter squadron
VF-211 would make its final Tomcat trap and catapult launch on May 20, 2004 as USS Enterprise conducted local operations off…
- Cold War EraMilitary Aviation
Of Floggers and Foxbats: the story of Syrian MiG-23s and MiG-25s, the fighter jets that were never able to match Israeli F-15s
The Soviet agreement to export MiG-23MFs and MiG-25PDs to Syria was a major break-through: it was the time ever that the…
- Aviation HistoryMilitary AviationWarbirds
Project Castor: the story of B-17 and B-24 bombers converted into flying bombs and aimed to destroy Luftwaffe’s V-1 sites
The idea of converting existing aircraft into power-driven controlled bombs began in January 1944 at the Special Weapons Branch of the…
- DronesLosses and Aviation SafetyMilitary Aviation
Video shows C-130 aircrew dodging RPG over Afghanistan (they were awarded the Air Force Combat Action Medal for their actions during the mission)
The C-130J wasn’t the only American aircraft overhead that night: a MQ-9 Reaper drone in fact was providing armed overwatch for…
