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Aviation History / Military Aviation

The day a Russian Air Force Su-24 attack aircraft was shot down by a Turkish F-16C fighter jet

Dario Leone

Nov 23 2023

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Aviation History / Cold War Era / Helicopters / Military Aviation

Huey crew members explain why UH-1 helicopters (almost) always flew with doors open during the Vietnam War

Nov 23 2023

Dario Leone

Did you know the Soviet Union was charged $ 40,000 shipping cost for the return of the MiG-25 Foxbat stolen by Viktor Belenko?

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation

Viktor Belenko, Who Defected to the West in a MiG-25 Foxbat Jet Fighter, has passed away

Nov 22 2023

Dario Leone

Soviet Pilot who test flew captured F-5 against MiG-21, MiG-23 explains why the Tiger beat the Fishbed, Flogger in every engagement

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation

Soviet Pilot who test flew captured Tiger against Fishbed and Flogger tells why the F-5 beat the MiG-21 and MiG-23 in every engagement

Nov 20 2023

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation

With an RCS of an Eagle’s Eyeball the F-117 Nighthawk was one thousand times less visible than the D-21, the least visible shape previously produced at Lockheed’s Skunk Works

Nov 19 2023

Linda Sheffield Miller

Aviation History / Military Aviation

45 Years of F/A-18 Legacy Hornet, the US Navy’s first multirole aircraft

Nov 17 2023

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation

USAF Museum to paint the F-15 Streak Eagle to match the record setting time period

Nov 16 2023

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation

British Secret U-2 operations and the RAF pilots who flew the Dragon Lady on CIA’s behalf during the Cold War

Nov 16 2023

Dario Leone

The story of “Lulubelle,” Pappy Boyington’s F4U Corsair Nose Art that Never was

Nov 10 2023

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation

B-52 EWO recalls the exercise where BUFF crews flying at low-level penetrated NORAD without any losses after fooling its massive surveillance system (and they did it for three years in a row)

Nov 7 2023

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Cold War Era / F-14 Tomcat / Military Aviation

F-14 Vs F-15: Tomcat and Eagle crews explain why trying to determine which was the better fighter is a pointless exercise

Nov 4 2023

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

Only one SR-71C was built and it was nicknamed “The Bastard.” Here’s why.

Nov 1 2023

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Aviation Humor / Cold War Era / Military Aviation

Avro Vulcan Pilot recalls when his bomber was ‘zapped’ with kiwis within the roundels on either side of the nose during New Zealand Ranger

Oct 29 2023

Dario Leone

The story of the U-2 shot down that nearly escalated the Cuban Missile Crisis into World III

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation

The story of the U-2 shot down that nearly escalated the Cuban Missile Crisis into World War III

Oct 26 2023

Dario Leone

20 Years On: Concorde supersonic airliner’s last commercial flight

Oct 25 2023

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation

Meet the B-17 All American: the Flying Fortress that made it home after being sliced by the wing of a Luftwaffe Me 109

Oct 25 2023

Dario Leone

The story of how the US secretly tested the A-12 Mach 3 Spy Plane Radar Cross Section during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation

The story of how the US secretly tested the A-12 Mach 3 Spy Plane RCS during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Oct 24 2023

Dario Leone

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Aviation History

The day a Russian Air Force Su-24 attack aircraft was shot down by a Turkish F-16C fighter jet

Thanks to our partners

Huey crew members explain why UH-1 helicopters (almost) always flew with doors open during the Vietnam War

Viktor Belenko, Who Defected to the West in a MiG-25 Foxbat Jet Fighter, has passed away

Soviet Pilot who test flew captured Tiger against Fishbed and Flogger tells why the F-5 beat the MiG-21 and MiG-23 in every engagement

With an RCS of an Eagle’s Eyeball the F-117 Nighthawk was one thousand times less visible than the D-21, the least visible shape previously produced at Lockheed’s Skunk Works

45 Years of F/A-18 Legacy Hornet, the US Navy’s first multirole aircraft

USAF Museum to paint the F-15 Streak Eagle to match the record setting time period

British Secret U-2 operations and the RAF pilots who flew the Dragon Lady on CIA’s behalf during the Cold War

The story of “Lulubelle,” Pappy Boyington’s F4U Corsair Nose Art that Never was

B-52 EWO recalls the exercise where BUFF crews flying at low-level penetrated NORAD without any losses after fooling its massive surveillance system (and they did it for three years in a row)

F-14 Vs F-15: Tomcat and Eagle crews explain why trying to determine which was the better fighter is a pointless exercise

Only one SR-71C was built and it was nicknamed “The Bastard.” Here’s why.

Avro Vulcan Pilot recalls when his bomber was ‘zapped’ with kiwis within the roundels on either side of the nose during New Zealand Ranger

The story of the U-2 shot down that nearly escalated the Cuban Missile Crisis into World War III

20 Years On: Concorde supersonic airliner’s last commercial flight

Meet the B-17 All American: the Flying Fortress that made it home after being sliced by the wing of a Luftwaffe Me 109

The story of how the US secretly tested the A-12 Mach 3 Spy Plane RCS during the Cuban Missile Crisis

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