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SR-71 pilot recalls doing a Blackbird super low pass at a speed of 152 knots
23+ hour, 42+ min ago (330+ words) From the shadows of the Cold War emerged an espionage platform that expanded the limits of human possibility and made the theoretical thrillingly real. The fastest manned aircraft in the history of flight, the Blackbird family and its best-known member,…...
The MiG-23 that crashed escaping from 2 AIM-54 Phoenix missiles fired by Navy F-14 Tomcats
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (330+ words) Few aircraft of the Cold War era have attained such cult status and adoration among those that flew it, wanted to fly it or kept it flying as the mighty Grumman F-14 Tomcat. The jet was the final fighter created by…...
Canberra PR 9 had been the best recce aircraft during early operations in Enduring and Iraqi Freedom. Here’s why.
4+ day, 23+ 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…...
The C-17 T-1, the Globemaster III that appeared in “Transformers” and “Iron Man”
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (318+ words) According to the National Museum of the US Air Force website, the Globemaster III on display is the prototype C-17. Built by the Douglas Aircraft Co., which is now Boeing, it was designated T-1 (S/N 87-0025). T-1 made its first flight on Sep....
A product of disinformation: the F-19 was designed to be F-117 opposite (perhaps)
5+ day, 19+ 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…...
Spitfire Vs Bf 109: handling tests and why the latter turned more readily to the right than to the left
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (258+ words) During the early war years the Bf 109 was one of the world’s finest single seat fighters. Its basic design provided the potential for it to take new engines and armament so that it remained the backbone of the Luftwaffe fighter…...
F-15 maintainer tells why although NASA equipped an Eagle with an AIM-54 USAF Never Outfitted its F-15 fleet with the Phoenix
6+ day, 23+ 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....
A gift from the East: The defection of Viktor Belenko, the Soviet MiG-25 pilot who stole a Foxbat and flew it to Japan
1+ week, 23+ hour 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…...
Blackbird Pilot recalls Secret Party SR-71 Crews had with Victor Pugachev and other Soviet Su-27 Pilots at Paris Air Show 1989
1+ week, 2+ day ago (299+ words) The SR-71, the most advanced member of the Blackbird family that included the A-12 and YF-12, was designed by a team of Lockheed personnel led by Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, then vice president of Lockheed’s Advanced Development Company Projects, commonly known as…...
F-22 features Rectangular Exhaust Nozzles (F-35, Su-57 and Chinese Stealth Fighters don’t), here’s why
1+ week, 3+ day ago (279+ words) The F-22 Raptor is combination of stealth, supercruise, maneuverability, and integrated avionics, coupled with improved supportability, represents an exponential leap in warfighting capabilities. The Raptor performs both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions allowing full realization of operational concepts vital to the 21st century…...