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The Night US Navy F-14s and Italian F-104s Clashed Over Egyptian Boeing 737 Carrying Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers
Cold War Era / F-14 Tomcat / Military Aviation
The Night US Navy F-14s and Italian F-104s Clashed Over Egyptian Boeing 737 Carrying Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers
Tomcats Surprise! F-14 Fighters Led US Navy Effort to Intercept the Egyptian Boeing 737 Carrying Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers
Cold War Era / F-14 Tomcat / Military Aviation
Tomcats Surprise! F-14 Fighters Led US Navy Effort to Intercept the Egyptian Boeing 737 Carrying Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers
The Myth of Soviet Arms and Tactics in the Middle East, Part Six: Why Soviet Air-To-Air Weapons Supplied to Arab Air Forces were Useless Junk
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / Weapons
The Myth of Soviet Arms and Tactics in the Middle East, Part Six: Why Soviet Air-To-Air Weapons Supplied to Arab Air Forces were Useless Junk
Engaging MiG-23 Fighters and Buzzing Mi-2 Helicopters: Two unknown Tomcat Stories Told by a Former US Naval Aviator who flew the Mighty F-14 Over the Gulf of Sidra
Cold War Era / F-14 Tomcat / Military Aviation
Engaging MiG-23 Fighters and Buzzing Helicopters: Unknown Tomcat Stories Told by a Retired Vice Admiral who flew the Mighty F-14 Over the Gulf of Sidra
60 Years Ago Today, the Surface-To-Air Missile scored the first ever successful shoot-down of an aircraft
Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation
60 Years Ago Today, the Surface-To-Air Missile Scored the First Ever Successful Shoot-Down of an Aircraft
British Phantom Aviation Group to Save two UK’s Phantom Aircraft
Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation
British Phantom Aviation Group to Save two UK’s Phantom Aircraft
This F-14 Demo Beat that of the F-15 and Sold the Mighty Tomcat to Shah of Iran
Cold War Era / F-14 Tomcat / Military Aviation
Watch the F-14 Demo which Beat that of the F-15 and Sold the Mighty Tomcat to Shah of Iran
This USMC F-8 Pilot Parachuted from 47,000 Feet Into a Gigantic Storm and Survived.
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
This USMC F-8 Pilot Parachuted from 47,000 Feet Into a Gigantic Storm and Survived.
How Scott Crossfield (and the D-558-2 X-Plane) beat Chuck Yeager and Became the First to Reach Mach 2
Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation
How Scott Crossfield (and the D-558-2 X-Plane) beat Chuck Yeager and Became the First to Reach Mach 2
The Myth of Soviet Arms and Tactics in the Middle East, Part Four: South Yemeni armed forces – the only ‘true’, Soviet-trained, Soviet-styled armed forces in the Middle East ever
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The Myth of Soviet Arms and Tactics in the Middle East, Part Four: South Yemeni armed forces – the only ‘true’, Soviet-trained, Soviet-styled armed forces in the Middle East ever
Operation Deep Throat: when USAF F-111Fs Dropped GBU-28 5000-lb Bunker Busting Bombs on Saddam’s Bunker at Al Taji Air Base
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
Operation Deep Throat: when USAF F-111Fs Dropped GBU-28 5000-lb Bunker Busting Bombs on Saddam’s Bunker at Al Taji Air Base
The Libyan Scud Attack on Lampedusa and the Italian Retaliation against Gaddafi that never was
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The Libyan Scud Attack on Lampedusa and the Italian Retaliation against Gaddafi that never was
Convair Thought to Transform the B-58 into a Supersonic Airliner. And to Store 5 Passengers in Hustler’s MB-1C Pod.
Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation
Convair Wanted to Transform the B-58 into a Supersonic Airliner. And to Store 5 Passengers in Hustler’s MB-1C Pod.
Strike Eagle Down: the Story of the F-15E that Crashed during Operation Desert Shield
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
Strike Eagle Down: the Story of the F-15E that Crashed during Operation Desert Shield
That time an IrAF MiG-23ML mistakenly shot down an IRIAF F-14A that was defecting to Iraq
Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The Myth of Soviet Arms and Tactics in the Middle East, Part Three: Single-Engined F-14s and the Iran-Iraq War
Did you know the F-111 Killed More Tanks than the A-10 during Operation Desert Storm?
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
Did you know the F-111 Killed More Tanks than the A-10 during Operation Desert Storm?
Former F-4 Phantom Driver tells the story of an Exhilarating Mach 2 Test Flight
Cold War Era
Former F-4 Phantom Driver tells the story of an Exhilarating Mach 2 Test Flight
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