Fighter pilots do not chat with each other in the way you see in Top Gun Fighter pilots absolutely do… Read More
Viktor Belenko Viktor Belenko, the former Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot who defected to the West in 1976 in a… Read More
The F-5 featured in the pictures of this article is not a faux “MiG-28” from Top Gun but a captured F-5E and… Read More
Royce Williams and his epic, 15-minute dogfight. On Nov. 18, 1952 an epic, 15-minute dogfight involving three F9F-5s and seven… Read More
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For Senior Lieutenant Viktor Belenko’s defecting MiG-25 Foxbat reaching Japan proved to be the easy part, as touching down on… Read More
Some MiG-29s were painted up to make them resemble the F-15 – the wingtips and stabilator tips were painted yellow… Read More
One of the latest known ideas for creating an interceptor variant of the Blackbird was the `SR-71 I', proposed by… Read More
Trying to shake off the pursuer, SH 37 pilot Sven-Olof Larsson started performing aerobatic manoeuvres at low altitude. This is… Read More
Incredibly, both pilots escaped without a scratch, even though one of them had to eject from an inverted position; a… Read More
The Su-15 fighter pilot gave the customary ‘follow me’ signals, but the big turboprop ignored them and started maneuvering dangerously,… Read More
The Tu-16 Badger made four passes over the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Essex, and on the last a wing… Read More
Unsurprisingly, this almost medieval kit was immediately rejected as too hot, heavy and cumbersome. Advertise The Soviet Union's invasion of… Read More
Lt. (SG) Vasiliy Tsymbal manoeuvred Su-27 Flanker dangerously close to the P-3 Orion and the port fin struck the No.… Read More
Soviet Lt. Viktor Belenko became an instant celebrity when he successfully defected to the West by flying his Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25… Read More