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Cold War Era / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
US Navy F-4 pilot tells the story of when his skipper flew straight for China after his compass precessed during a MIGCAP mission over North Vietnam
Cold War Era / Military Aviation / U.S. Navy
Former Naval Aviator explains why the XF8U-3 Crusader III is the best supersonic fighter jet ever built and why lost to the F-4 Phantom II
Drones / Military Aviation
Video shows MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aerial tanker refueling an F-35C Lightning II for the first time
Cold War Era / F-14 Tomcat / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
The F-14 Tomcat posed such a serious threat to the Soviets that they once tried to fish one that fell off the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy
Military Aviation
The Boeing F-32 may have had some advantages over the F-35 but it would have had the same issues of the Lightning II. Here’s why.
Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The story of the US Navy A-7 that gun killed a US Navy pilotless, errant Corsair II
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Civil Aviation / Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
Former US military aviators explain why an experienced fighter pilot can’t fly a Cessna 172 without training
Cold War Era / F-14 Tomcat / Military Aviation
US Navy F-14 crew members explain how you could land a Tomcat with a full load of six AIM-54 Phoenix missiles on the aircraft carrier
Aviation History / Military Aviation
When Admiral Yamamoto was shot down Japan didn’t suspect their radio codes were compromised. Here’s why.
U.S. Navy / Weapons
Remembering the Lockheed Sea Shadow, the ship that used the same stealth technology of the F-117 Nighthawk
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Cold War Era / Military Aviation
The story of the US Navy F-8 pilots that instructed USAF F-4 crews in ACM, beat them during every engagement and made Robin Olds angry
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Military Aviation
A detailed analysis of the ongoing Kabul evacuation: the aircraft involved, those that have been abandoned and the US Navy F/A-18E/Fs flying top cover (via Pakistan)
Drones / Military Aviation / U.S. Navy
MQ-25 Stingray refuels Navy E-2D Advanced Hawkeye command and control aircraft, completing second unmanned aerial tanking to date
Cold War Era / F-14 Tomcat / MiG Killers / Military Aviation
VF-41 Black Aces F-14 Tomcat crew members who took part in Gulf of Sidra Incident recall the shooting down of Gaddafi Sukhoi Su-22M Fitter fighter bombers
Losses and Aviation Safety / Military Aviation
B-52 Navigator tells the story of when his BUFF was nearly fired at by a Navy/Marine F/A-18 during Operation Desert Storm (and remembers other scary sorties flown during the First Gulf War)
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Military Aviation / U.S. Navy
