Hey Geeks! Here you can read all Cold War Era stories published on The Aviation Geek Club site.
‘We started an ACM engagement and as soon as I got a little G on the airplane, that [radar dome]… Read More
The SR-71 engineering was so cutting edge that even the tools to build the Blackbird needed to be designed from… Read More
‘I had a catastrophic turbine failure that buzz sawed the back end of my plane and turned the plane into… Read More
Some armament folks said they could match the 30 mm cannon in the A-10 with pod-mounted cannon for the… Read More
‘My crew chief asked if I wanted him to paint a Winnebago sillouette on the fuselage to record my “kill,"’… Read More
SR-71 Blackbird pilot Brian Shul suddenly died in the night of May 20, 2023 in Reno, Nevada, at age 75,… Read More
‘One of the real highlights of flying above Mach 3 and above 80,000 feet is nobody is up there with… Read More
‘I watched in amazement as the Vc circle [on the radar display] which told us the relative closing velocity of… Read More
Lt Jerry Tucker kill was disallowed on the grounds that it had been achieved without the use of any weapons,… Read More
Some experts feel that the performance of the IAI Lavi would be broadly comparable to today's F-16C/D Viper in most… Read More
‘One of the interesting discoveries from the Eagle Bait was that F-15s couldn’t even find us when everything was shut… Read More
A new capability introduced by the AIM-54 was strictly linked to its radar: the AWG-9 had the unprecedented ability to… Read More
Dotan squeezed the trigger and fired long burst into the jet's right wing root. The wing was quickly ripped… Read More
What happens if a fighter jet pilot fell asleep while flying? More than half of airline and commercial pilots have… Read More
No story on the SR-71 would be complete without an understanding and appreciation of just how valuable the KC-135Q model… Read More
The young EA-6B Prowler pilot was called to the pilot house to meet his CO, the Air Wing Commander, and… Read More
In September 1985, an F-15 Eagle was even able to destroy a machine orbiting Earth. But no, it wasn’t the… Read More
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