Featured prominently in both comic books and on the big screen, the X-Men’s X-Jet is heavily inspired by Lockheed’s SR-71 Blackbird.…
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Cold War EraMilitary Aviation
Voodoo over Cuba: the RF-101 Involvement in the Missile Crisis of October 1962
by Dario LeoneThe RF-8A pilots also cast doubt upon the ability of USAF photo interpreters, and they were annoyed that the USAF crews,…
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Cold War EraMilitary Aviation
The True Story Behind the Famous Sequence of Thirteen Days Movie featuring the RF-8 Crusader Low-Level High Speed Run Over Cuba during the Missile Crisis
by Dario LeoneRecovering at Jacksonville after a mission, each Crusader would receive another ‘dead chicken’ marking below its cockpit to denote the successful…
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Cold War EraMilitary Aviation
Electric Hustlers and the B-58A’s only Flight over Cuba during the Missile Crisis
by Dario LeoneIronically, the B-58A’s only operational strategic mission in a conflict situation was a Quick Check reconnaissance flight by aircraft 55-0668 during…
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Cold War EraMilitary Aviation
The RA-5C Vigilante’s Flights Over Cuba during the Missile Crisis that Never Were and “Jiffy Soda” Missions
by Dario LeoneOn Oct. 13, 1962 John Fosness, then Vigilante Programme Manager at NAA received a call from the Pentagon at his home.…
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Cold War EraMilitary Aviation
Can you name them all? The 22 different types of aircraft operational in the USAF in 1956 fly in a single formation.
by Dario LeoneThis photo was taken at the height of the Cold War, the confrontation that dominated the second half of the 20th…
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Cold War EraMilitary Aviation
The unknown story of the U-2 flight that went lost over the North Pole and nearly escalated the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Dario LeoneTwo Air Defense Command Convair F-102 Delta Dagger interceptors were scrambled to counter the MiG-19s and guide the U-2 home. On…
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Cold War EraMilitary Aviation
How the U.S. secretly tested the A-12 RCS during the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Dario LeoneDuring the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, nineteen SA-2 missile sites were constructed on the island supported by P-14 “Tall King” radars.…
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Military Aviation
A QUICK LOOK AT WHY THE 60-YEAR-OLD U-2 INTELLIGENCE AIRCRAFT IS STILL SO RELEVANT FOR THE U.S AIR FORCE
by Dario LeoneIts flight characteristics combine to earn the U-2 a widely accepted title as the most difficult aircraft in the world to fly…
