The deaths of seven crew in the crash of an EA-3B during a night recovery onboard USS Nimitz (CVN-68) in the…
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F-14 Pilot’s Unreleased Notes on Filming “The Final Countdown”
One of the F-14 pilots who flew in The Final Countdown shares his personal notes on the movie that introduced the…
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Former B-52 Pilot Tells the Story behind this Photo of two BUFFs Buzzing USS Midway Aircraft Carrier
by Dario Leone‘We were tasked by the JCS to fly a mission deep into the Indian Ocean/Persian Gulf to surveil the Soviet Fleet.…
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US Navy CSG kicks off Overseas Deployment Without its Broken-Down Aircraft Carrier
by Dario LeoneThe ongoing maintenance backlog in the East Coast’s aircraft carrier fleet leaves the Navy with no ready aircraft carrier available to…
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Tomcats 2-Fitters 0: how two U.S. Navy F-14s shot down two Qaddafi’s Su-22s over the Gulf of Sidra on Aug. 19, 1981
by Dario LeoneKleemann waited about 5 seconds for the Libyan to clear the sun, then pulled the trigger The following article titled Sudden…
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Check out this video of when a typical U.S. Navy Carrier Air Wing was filled with many beautiful, colorful and different aircraft
by Dario LeoneThere was a time when the Carrier Air Wings crowded the decks with airplanes of different shapes, sizes and capabilities Today…
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SHOCKING VIDEO SHOWS U.S. NAVY F/A-18F SUPER HORNET INTERCEPTING A UFO
by Dario LeoneThe object peeled away. “It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen,” Cmdr. Fravor said. He was, he explained, “pretty weirded out.”…
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REMEMBERING JIM HUSTON, THE NAVAL FLIGHT OFFICER WHO FILMED THE AERIAL SEQUENCES OF “THE FINAL COUNTDOWN” CULT MOVIE
by Dario LeoneWhile in the Jolly Rogers, Jim Huston participated in making the movie “The Final Countdown,” filming several scenes with a camera…
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THIS DAY IN AVIATION HISTORY: THE F-14 TOMCAT’s FIRST AIR-TO-AIR VICTORY
by Dario LeoneThe F-14 Tomcats were fired on by the Libyans, turning what had been a game of cat and mouse into a…
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U.S. NAVY F/A-18E SUPER HORNET PREPARING TO LAND ON USS NIMITZ TAKES EVASIVE ACTION TO AVOID COLLISION WITH IRANIAN DRONE
by Dario LeoneThe Iranian QOM-1 drone flew at the F/A-18E Super Hornet and came within 100 feet vertically and 200 feet laterally As…
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