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Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
The night 12 Chinese MiGs were scrambled to intercept a lone CIA B-17 Spy Plane. They failed, and two of them crashed.
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Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird
The A-12 program was so secret that CIA injected with sodium pentothal the first pilot that bailed out of an Oxcart to interrogate him after the crash
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The list of the fastest and the highest known flights ever recorded by the Lockheed Blackbird family
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
Clarence “Kelly” Johnson described the first flight of the top secret A-12 Oxcart as “horrible to watch.” Here’s why.
Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The Fulton-equipped B-17 that saved 007 in the movie Thunderball had also flown the longest B-17 mission ever (it lasted more than 19 hours and was flown over China by a Taiwanese pilot)
Civil Aviation / Losses and Aviation Safety
The sad story of Tanker 130, the C-130 whose wings fall off during the 2002 fire season
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird / SR-71 Top Speed
This Aircraft was Faster than the SR-71 (Look Closely it’s not a Blackbird)
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The True Fastest Speed Ever Reached by a Lockheed Blackbird
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
Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation
Francis Gary Powers Jr. reveals exclusive details on the shoot-down of his father’s U-2
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
How the U.S. secretly tested the A-12 RCS during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The story of Carmine Vito, the only U-2 pilot to fly over Moscow
Aviation History / Military Aviation
