Bailing out at Mach 3: the incredible story of Bill Weaver, the first pilot to eject from an SR-71 Blackbird
Lockheed test pilots Bill Weaver and Jim Zwayer on Jan. 26, 1966… were flying the #952 at Mach 3.18, at 78,800…
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Lockheed test pilots Bill Weaver and Jim Zwayer on Jan. 26, 1966… were flying the #952 at Mach 3.18, at 78,800…
To keep the Saab 37 Viggen landing distance short Saab developed a thrust-reverser integrated with the rear fuselage, still the only…
It is interesting to note that the B-36 program might have been canceled at least five times during the big bomber’s…
‘We had been conducting operations at low level (200 – 300 feet) in the Norwegian Sea, when we received a message…
‘It was thought if the Chance Vought XF8U-3 Super Crusader where to have gone into production it would have been powered…
‘Although some thought it “ugly”, and it had a nickname of “double ugly” I loved its lines,’ John Chesire, Former US…
The world’s largest supplier of it was the Soviet Union. The US worked through Third World countries and fake companies and…
The Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack continued to establish records even after the fall of the Soviet Union. Developed as the answer to…
“Turning inbound on our first sensor run, I noticed the “R” light on my electronic countermeasures (ECM) panel was illuminated. A…
Following the interception of radio traffic between the F-15s and the AWACS, Iran later claimed — logically — that the pilots…
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