5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (727+ words) Canberra PR 9: the best recce aircraft From its first public demonstration at the Farnborough Airshow of 1949, the English Electric Canberra bomber captured the attention of the aviation world. It could outmanoeuvre all the fighters of the time and it could…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (551+ words) And this is precisely where the story becomes even more interesting. Let us begin with the official story, supported by the Testors drawings, the models, and all the related merchandising.The documented story, at least officially, revolves around an extraordinary…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (240+ words) These missions, conducted over restricted military test ranges, involved launching a missile from a NASA F-15 aircraft flying at speeds up to Mach 2.0, with the missile then accelerating to speeds up to Mach 5.0, depending on its trajectory before fuel is exhausted....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (113+ words) Belenko’s plane had been manufactured between December 1975 and February 1976 and was thus one of the Soviets’ latest, most sophisticated production aircraft. The MiG-25 was not an air-superiority fighter, but rather an interceptor designed to climb at tremendous speeds, fire missiles…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (384+ words) The Lockheed F-117A was developed in response to an Air Force request for an aircraft capable of attacking high-value targets without being detected by enemy radar. By the 1970s, new materials and techniques allowed engineers to design an aircraft with radar-evading or…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago   (240+ words) As told by Yefim Gordon & Dmitriy Komissarov in their book Sukhoi Interceptors: The Su-9, Su-11, and Su-15: Unsung Soviet Cold War Heroes, the first attempt was abortive: a 528th IAP MiG-23 piloted by Maj. Vasiliy Kaz’min scrambled from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy/Yelizovo airport…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (311+ words) The A-12 reconnaissance aircraft was the product of Project Oxcart, a top-secret Cold War CIA program to develop a high-altitude supersonic aircraft. The aircraft was capable of carrying out sensitive intelligence-gathering missions while flying at speeds exceeding 2,260 miles per hour, or…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1000+ words) Mr. William Cobb is a licensed Instrument Flight Instructor in Single and Multi Engine Airplanes who is the founder and director of the Pensacola Aerospace Museum. Mr. Cobb spent from 2008 to 2015 instructing for the U.S. Navy's Initial Flight Screening program. After…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (327+ words) The SR-71, unofficially known as the “Blackbird,” is a long-range, advanced, strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed A-12 and YF-12A aircraft. During its operational lifetime, the SR-71 provided intelligence about the Yom Kippur War in 1973, the Israeli invasion of…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (316+ words) Israel relied on France as its principal supplier of arms for more than a decade, but by the mid-1960s its desire to purchase more advanced and capable US weapons saw it buy the combat-proven Douglas A-4 Skyhawk to perform light strike missions....