Operation El Dorado Canyon
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Special color F-15E to celebrate 40th Anniversary of Operation El Dorado Canyon unveiled at RAF Lakenheath
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird / SR-71 Top Speed
SR-71 spy planes could go faster than Mach 3.4 For BDA flights of Libya in support of Operation El Dorado Canyon. Here’s why.
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
Operation El Dorado Canyon, the long range F-111 strike mission that destroyed Libyan terrorist training camps
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Naval Flight Officer explains why USS Enterprise (CVN-65) aircraft carrier can’t be turned into a museum
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird / SR-71 Top Speed
SR-71 pilot recalls when he and his RSO pushed their Blackbird to Mach 3.5 and outran Gaddafi’s SAMs during a BDA flight of Libya in support of Operation El Dorado Canyon
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird / SR-71 Top Speed
Here’s why SR-71 Blackbird spy planes could go faster than Mach 3.4 During BDA flights of Libya in support of Operation El Dorado Canyon
Aircraft Carriers / Military Aviation
US Navy May Dismantle USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the service’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, at Commercial Yard
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird / SR-71 Top Speed
‘We truly felt invincible at Mach 3.15:’ SR-71 pilot tells the story of his BDA flight of Libya in Support of Operation El Dorado Canyon
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
Intruders over Libya: former A-6 crew members remember their participation in Operation El Dorado Canyon
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird / SR-71 Top Speed
‘Blackbird’s Top Speed was Officially Mach 3.2 but the SR-71 was Much Faster Than That,” former Skunk Works Engineer Says
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The Libyan Scud Attack on Lampedusa and the Italian Retaliation against Gaddafi that never was
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
Italy’s Prime Minister saved Gaddafi’s Life by Warning of Operation El Dorado Canyon
Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The sad story of ‘Karma 52’, the only F-111 lost during Operation El Dorado Canyon
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
Remembering Operation Ghost Rider, the mock air strike conducted by USAFE F-111s to simulate Operation El Dorado Canyon
Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird
The story of the SR-71 Blackbird that outran Gaddafi’s SAMs during a BDA flight of Libya in support of Operation El Dorado Canyon
Aviation History / Military Aviation
THIS DAY IN AVIATION HISTORY: OPERATION EL DORADO CANYON, THE LONG RANGE F-111 STRIKE MISSION THAT DESTROYED LIBYAN TERRORIST TRAINING CAMPS
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