The RB-47 During the early part of the Cold War, the US Air Force needed an aircraft to gather information… Read More
OV-1 Mohawk pilot Ken Lee is the only US Army aviator to have shot down an enemy airplane in combat… Read More
Just few days before the exercise, the Tu-4 crew members were informed that they would not only drop a live… Read More
Years after, in piecing together the events of the air battle, the destruction of the Chinese MiG-17 was given to… Read More
The MiG-17 made a safe landing, the Sidewinder was extracted and the Communists promptly rushed it to the USSR, where… Read More
Lt Jerry Tucker kill was disallowed on the grounds that it had been achieved without the use of any weapons,… Read More
Dotan squeezed the trigger and fired a long burst into the jet's right wing root. The wing was quickly ripped… Read More
The story of a confused dogfight during the Vietnam War. After having shot down a North Vietnamese MiG-17 on May… Read More
The OV-1 Mohawk achieved the only US Army air-to-air victory during the Vietnam War. In 1957, the US Army identified… Read More
“The flight lasted only about 25 minutes, and we landed back at base with only 800 lbs of fuel. Both… Read More
'The MiG pilot had three choices', Brig Gen Robin Olds explained. 'He could bale out, hit that ridge of hills… Read More
The Tupolev Tu-4 was the Soviet copy of the four-engined B-29. In 1952, ten of them were transferred to China… Read More
This victory was claimed three-and-a-heft years after 'Sundowner' Lt Tony Nargi had bagged a MiG-21 in an F-8C on Sep.… Read More
The incredible photo in this post features a MiG-17 fighter aircraft having a tail strike after his pilot completed a… Read More
The possibility of an enemy aerial attack on US Navy ships off the coast of North Vietnam became a reality… Read More
The Navy's F-4 and F-8 squadrons were the main `distributors of MiG parts' during the Vietnam War, but Lt Cdr… Read More
Suddenly, the MiG's canopy flew off, followed by the pilot. F-8 pilot Lt. Jerry Tucker watched incredulously as his 'kill'… Read More