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Did you know the solid quartz glass of the canopy of the SR-71 Blackbird cockpit was 1.25 inches thick and was hot to the touch from the inside?
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird
Did you know the solid quartz glass of the canopy of the SR-71 Blackbird cockpit was 1.25 inches thick and was hot to the touch from the inside?
Pentagon releases USAF MQ-9 camera footage of Russian Su-27 Black Sea Intercept
Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
Pentagon releases USAF MQ-9 camera footage of Russian Su-27 Black Sea Intercept
Congress looks to Block A-10 Cut forcing USAF to pause plan for Davis-Monthan AFB Center of Excellence for CAS
Military Aviation
USAF is Subtracting A-10 from ‘4+1’ Fighter Plan given that all Warthogs will be retired by 2029
Ghosts of Groom Lake: the story of the F-101 Voodoo aircraft tasked to support the then top-secret A-12 program test flights at Area 51
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird
Ghosts of Groom Lake: the story of the F-101 Voodoo aircraft tasked to support the then top-secret A-12 program test flights at Area 51
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USAF wants to retire 310 aircraft (including 42 A-10s and 32 F-22s) to put greater dollars toward NGAD fighter and Collaborative Combat Aircraft
Military Aviation
USAF wants to retire 310 aircraft (including 42 A-10s and 32 F-22s) to put greater dollars toward NGAD fighter and Collaborative Combat Aircraft
B-21 Will Be ‘Backbone’ of Bomber Fleet, B-52 will remain in service with a projected service life of 100 years, AFGSC Boss Says
Military Aviation
B-21 Will Be ‘Backbone’ of Bomber Fleet, B-52 will remain in service with a projected service life of 100 years, AFGSC Boss Says
Meet A-10 pilot Kim “Killer Chick” Campbell, the Heroic Warthog driver who Landed Her Damaged Thunderbolt II Using Only ‘Cranks and Cables’
Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
Meet A-10 pilot Kim “Killer Chick” Campbell, the Heroic Warthog driver who Landed Her Damaged Thunderbolt II Using Only ‘Cranks and Cables’
SR-71 RSO tells the story behind this video of a Blackbird creating ’13 Fireballs’ during Air Fete Air Show 1986 at RAF Mildenhall
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird
SR-71 crew members tell the story of when a Blackbird did ’13 Fireballs’ during an air show and explain why Triethylborane was used to ignite JP-7 for engine start and to light the afterburner section
Promoting the Behemoth: The Strategic Air Command Movie and the B-36 Peacemaker-boosting campaign
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
Cool footage shows B-36 takeoff and landing in James Stewart’s Strategic Air Command Re-edited in 4 K
Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall reveals that the USAF Plans to buy 200 NGAD Fighter Jets and 1,000 Collaborative Combat Aircraft
Military Aviation
Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall reveals that the USAF Plans to buy 200 NGAD Fighter Jets and 1,000 Collaborative Combat Aircraft
The Pardo's Push: USAF F-4 Phantom II pilot Bob Pardo remembers the most exciting day of his life
Aviation History / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
The Pardo’s Push: USAF F-4 Phantom II pilot Bob Pardo remembers the most exciting day of his life
Sponsored by: Schiffer Military
Project Featherduster: the exercise that proved the F-104 could have been a better MiG killer than the F-4C, F-105D and F-100D
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
Former F-104 Pilots explain why despite the Starfighter many limitations they loved flying the Zipper
Sponsored by: Schiffer Military
F-22 Raptor Formal Training Unit begins move from Eglin Air Force Base to Joint Base Langley-Eustis
Military Aviation
F-22 Raptor Formal Training Unit begins move from Eglin Air Force Base to Joint Base Langley-Eustis
Here’s why NASA Equipped an F-15 with an AIM-54 and why USAF Never Outfitted its Eagle fleet with the mighty Phoenix
F-14 Tomcat / Military Aviation / Weapons
F-15 maintainer explains why even though NASA equipped an Eagle with an AIM-54 the USAF Never Outfitted its F-15 fleet with the mighty Phoenix
The new engines will remain on wing for the remainder of the BUFF life: Rolls-Royce has begun testing F130 engines for the USAF B-52 Stratofortress fleet
Military Aviation
The new engines will remain on wing for the remainder of the BUFF life: Rolls-Royce has begun testing F130 engines for the USAF B-52 Stratofortress fleet
Did you know? To keep the A-12 project secret CIA stored in boxes Oxcart spy planes and moved them from Skunk Works production site to Area 51
Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird
Did you know? To keep the A-12 project secret CIA stored in boxes Oxcart spy planes and moved them from Skunk Works production site to Area 51
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