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Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird
SR-71 pilot recalls spray painting RC-135 silhouettes all over Kadena AB. RC-135 crew members had to remove all the painted planes.
Military Aviation
‘I had been sitting in the ejection seat for 15 hours.’ F-15C pilot recalls flying from Japan to Turkey via Alaska and Azores
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Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird
F-4 crews kept saying the SR-71 couldn’t do a high-performance takeoff: they gave up after a Blackbird went vertical in full AB after takeoff.
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird / SR-71 Top Speed
SR-71 pilot recalls his Blackbird flying so fast that landed at Beale AFB almost a Day Before Taking off from Kadena AB
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird
When a Corsair II and a Blackbird played on the same footing: A-7E pilot recalls doing Touch and Go’s with an SR-71
Aviation News / Military Aviation
USMC, USAF use 3D printing to return grounded F-15 to flight in less than 12 hours
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird / SR-71 Top Speed
The Blackbird pilot who revealed SR-71 True Top Speed
Aviation News / Military Aviation
F-15EX arrives at Kadena for the first time for training with local units
Military Aviation / Uncategorized
Final USAF active-duty F-15C makes last flight at Kadena, Japan
Civil Aviation / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
The frantic search for MH370 and the US Navy P-8 Poseidon that searched over 55,000 square miles of ocean
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Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird
The SR-71 Blackbird that flew so fast that landed to Kadena two hours before it took off from Beale beating the sun
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird
SR-71 pilot tells how he was able to RTB after he got lost at Mach 3 because both attitude indicator and heading indicator were unserviceable
Aviation Humor / Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird
SR-71 pilot recalls when Blackbird crew members spray painted RC-135 silhouettes all over Kadena AB. RC-135 crew members had to remove all the painted planes.
Military Aviation
Kadena bids farewell to the last F-15C Eagle
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird
Once F-4 crews told the SR-71 couldn’t go vertical after takeoff. They gave up after a Blackbird did a high-performance takeoff (with sensitive equipment replaced with ballast).
Military Aviation
USAF in Japan gets major fighter upgrades: F-15EX to replace F-15C/D at Kadena, F-35A to replace F-16C/D at Misawa
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