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Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation

The story of the F11F Tiger Test Pilot who Shot Himself Down by Overtaking his Bullets in a Dive

Dario Leone

Apr 15 2023

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Impressive video shows F-14A Tomcat becoming uncontrollable after flat spin test gone wrong

Cold War Era / F-14 Tomcat / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation

US Navy Test Pilot tells the story of the F-14 Tomcat Fatal Flat Spin Mode That Was Never Supposed to Happen

Mar 5 2023

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird

First man to fly the iconic SR-71 recalls when he flew the Blackbird Inverted and he turned off the Instrumentation so that Kelly Johnson wouldn’t find out

Nov 23 2022

Dario Leone

New supersonic corridor named “Bell X-1 Supersonic Corridor” unveiled at Edwards AFB during the 2022 Aerospace Valley Open House, Air Show & STEM Expo

Oct 20 2022

Dario Leone

Former F-14D pilot tells the story of when Chuck Yeager called his Super Tomcat “the only real fighter” featured at Edwards AFB air show

Aviation History / F-14 Tomcat / Military Aviation

F-14D pilot recalls that time Chuck Yeager said his Super Tomcat was “the only real fighter” featured at Edwards AFB air show

Oct 14 2022

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Here’s how much Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin earned for their moonwalk on the Apollo 11 Mission

Jul 26 2022

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Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Space

The story of Neil Armstrong’s X-15 Test Flight that Bounced Off the Atmosphere

Apr 29 2021

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Military Aviation / Warbirds

The story of legendary test pilot Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown and the Seafire ‘crabbed’ landing

May 23 2020

Dario Leone

Military Aviation

The Story of Mike Adams, the only Pilot to lose his life during the X-15 Flight-Test Program

Dec 11 2018

Dario Leone

Aircraft Carriers / Military Aviation

Cool photos show RN and RAF F-35 pilots conducting first night flying trials off HMS Queen Elizabeth

Oct 5 2018

Dario Leone

Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation

That time an XB-70A Valkyrie performed an emergency landing on “tip-toe”

Aug 23 2018

Dario Leone

Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation

Here’s why BAe Test Pilot Keith Hartley flew this Tornado with the canopy off

Aug 21 2018

Dario Leone

The story behind this famous ejection from a RAF Lightning interceptor

Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation

The story behind a famous photo of an ejection from a RAF Lightning interceptor

Aug 7 2018

Dario Leone

Aviation History / Military Aviation

Legendary Soviet test pilot Georgy Mosolov has passed away. He had been the first to fly the MiG-21.

Mar 22 2018

Dario Leone

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The story of the F11F Tiger Test Pilot who Shot Himself Down by Overtaking his Bullets in a Dive

Thanks to our partners

US Navy Test Pilot tells the story of the F-14 Tomcat Fatal Flat Spin Mode That Was Never Supposed to Happen

First man to fly the iconic SR-71 recalls when he flew the Blackbird Inverted and he turned off the Instrumentation so that Kelly Johnson wouldn’t find out

New supersonic corridor named “Bell X-1 Supersonic Corridor” unveiled at Edwards AFB during the 2022 Aerospace Valley Open House, Air Show & STEM Expo

F-14D pilot recalls that time Chuck Yeager said his Super Tomcat was “the only real fighter” featured at Edwards AFB air show

Here’s how much Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin earned for their moonwalk on the Apollo 11 Mission

The story of Neil Armstrong’s X-15 Test Flight that Bounced Off the Atmosphere

The story of legendary test pilot Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown and the Seafire ‘crabbed’ landing

Join Test Pilot Jim Sandberg for YF-23 PAV-2 “Gray Ghost” walk-around

This former A-10 Driver has become the First Female F-35 Test Pilot

Bailing Out at Hypersonic Speed: the X-15 Ejection Seat

The Story of Mike Adams, the only Pilot to lose his life during the X-15 Flight-Test Program

Cool photos show RN and RAF F-35 pilots conducting first night flying trials off HMS Queen Elizabeth

That time an XB-70A Valkyrie performed an emergency landing on “tip-toe”

Here’s why BAe Test Pilot Keith Hartley flew this Tornado with the canopy off

The story behind a famous photo of an ejection from a RAF Lightning interceptor

Legendary Soviet test pilot Georgy Mosolov has passed away. He had been the first to fly the MiG-21.

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