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Talk of reviving the SR-71 Blackbird, still the fastest air-breathing aircraft ever at an official Mach 3.32 and an unofficial 3.56, has grown into...
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Talk of reviving the SR-71 Blackbird, still the fastest air-breathing aircraft ever at an official Mach 3.32 and an unofficial 3.56, has grown into...
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it’s the size of the fight in the dog,” President Dwight D....
“By perseverance, and study, and eternal desire, any man can become great,” said Gen. George S. Patton, who could not read or write until...
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why,” the line credited...
On July 28, 1976, SR-71 61-7958 set the absolute speed record that still stands, 2,193.2 mph, about Mach 3.3, while a second Blackbird set...
Three 1980s upgrades gave each 57,500-ton Iowa-class battleship four Phalanx guns at 4,500 rounds a minute, 16 Harpoons reaching 150 nautical miles, and 32...
Yes, the Medal of Honor can be revoked. In 1916 a board of five generals reviewed all 2,625 awarded and struck 910: 864 handed...
The AWG-9 could track targets beyond 100 miles and the Tomcat carried six Phoenix missiles for six targets at Mach 2.34. The TF30 engines...
'I used to have to fly the engines; now I fly the airplane,' one Tomcat pilot told museum docent Orrin Messinger, and a Grumman...
The F-14D added the AN/APG-71 radar, LANTIRN, JTIDS, IRST and four JDAMs. The last Tomcat combat mission launched from USS Theodore Roosevelt on February...