Cold War Era
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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
Cold War Era / MiG Killers / Military Aviation
One F9F Vs Six MiG-15s: the legendary dogfight that made Royce Williams the top-scoring Naval Aviator of the Korean War
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Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation
USAF Museum to paint the F-15 Streak Eagle to match the record setting time period
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
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Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
USAF F-4 WSO recalls when during a drill he and his pilot were tasked in trying to steal a Phantom II fighter jet. They succeeded.
Cold War Era / F-14 Tomcat / Military Aviation
Eagle Vs Tomcat Vs Hornet: the F-15 in Dissimilar Fighting against legendary F-14 crews and why F-15 Pilots liked the Fake Canopies painted on CF-188s
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Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
The U-2 that crashed in Bolivia after its pilot died suffering hypoxia while overflying Cuba and after US Navy F-4s failed to shoot it down
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Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird / SR-71 Top Speed
SR-71 pilot recalls when he and his RSO did a Blackbird super low pass at a speed of 152 knots
Cold War Era / F-14 Tomcat / Military Aviation
The VF-213 CO who perfected the manual deployment of the maneuvering flaps of the F-14 to enhance the Tomcat handling characteristics in the dogfight arena and who introduced the F-14 section takeoff
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Cold War Era / Military Aviation
RAF Lightning pilot recalls when he accelerated to the fighter max speed of Mach 2.2 and zoomed to 87,800 feet establishing the (unofficial) world altitude record of the Lightning
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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)
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
USAF controller recalls when he directed two F-102s to shoot down a fully loaded F-4 that flew towards Chinese border after its crew ejected (The Phantom II ran out of fuel and crashed in the Gulf of Tonkin)
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird
SR-71 Mechanic explains how you could light the Blackbird’s afterburners if TEB (Triethylborane) wasn’t available
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
The night 13 MiG-17 fighters failed to shoot down an RB-47 flying a recce mission 1,000 kilometres into Soviet Airspace
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Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
Here’s why the Tu-16 wing-to-wing in-flight refueling system took a heavy toll on Badger crews’ nerves
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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
Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird
