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US Navy Operations Specialist explains why the F-35’s F135 engine is better than F-22’s F119 (but not in every way)
Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation
B-52 EWO recalls the exercise where BUFF crews flying at low-level penetrated NORAD without any losses after fooling its massive surveillance system (and they did it for three years in a row)
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A-10 Vs F-35 CAS Flyoff report surfaces and says the A-10C “enabled more attacks than the typical loadout of the F-35A” but does not reveal how many targets each aircraft hit in the test
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
USAF controller recalls when he directed two F-102s to shoot down a fully loaded F-4 that flew towards Chinese border after its crew ejected (The Phantom II ran out of fuel and crashed in the Gulf of Tonkin)
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird
SR-71 Mechanic explains how you could light the Blackbird’s afterburners if TEB (Triethylborane) wasn’t available
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
The night 13 MiG-17 fighters failed to shoot down an RB-47 flying a recce mission 1,000 kilometres into Soviet Airspace
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Aviation History / Cold War Era / F-14 Tomcat / Military Aviation
F-14 Vs F-15: Tomcat and Eagle crews explain why trying to determine which was the better fighter is a pointless exercise
Military Aviation
High Operating Costs, Low Production Run, Export ban: all the Shortfalls that Killed the F-22 Raptor Program
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USAF B-1B Lancer bombers receive first-ever hot-pit refuel in Turkey
Aviation History / Cold War Era / Military Aviation / SR-71 Blackbird
Only one SR-71C was built and it was nicknamed “The Bastard.” Here’s why.
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
Cool clips feature B-47 Stratojet bombers doing Immelmann Turns and Barrel Rolls
Military Aviation
USAF F-16 Viper driver explains why flying fast and low is one of the better perks of being a Fighter Pilot
Military Aviation
163rd Fighter Squadron Blacksnakes receives First F-16 Vipers after A-10C divestment
Airshows / Military Aviation
‘The F-22 Raptor is the only jet that manufacturers teams watch fly at air shows,’ Lockheed Martin Flightline Quality Assurance Manager says
Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
B-47 navigator/bombardier recalls when his Stratojet flew the largest Nuclear Bomb ever built to Spain
Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
Chinese J-11 fighter jet comes within 10 feet of USAF B-52 in ‘unsafe’ and ‘unprofessional’ night time intercept
Aviation History / Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
The story of the U-2 shot down that nearly escalated the Cuban Missile Crisis into World War III
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