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Tail number 61-7974 was tracking Soviet naval activity off the Kola Peninsula at Mach 3 and 83,000 feet when the right engine unstarted. The...
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Tail number 61-7974 was tracking Soviet naval activity off the Kola Peninsula at Mach 3 and 83,000 feet when the right engine unstarted. The...
It took two or three seconds. Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird test pilot Bill Weaver was at Mach 3.18 and 79,000 feet, in a 35-degree bank,...
On October 1, 1959, Chinese-built copies of the Soviet T-54A crossed Tiananmen Square at the parade marking the People's Republic's tenth anniversary. They came...
No Soviet aircraft frightened Western planners like the MiG-25 Foxbat. On paper it was capable of Mach 3.2, powered by two Tumansky R-15B-300 afterburning...
David Peters was stationed at Kadena in Okinawa and took off at 1000 on a Saturday morning in an SR-71 Blackbird. The route ran...
Britain used them four years and let them go for a pound each. Canada spent twenty years and most of a billion dollars making...
Operational demand and aircraft losses have reversed the drawdown. The Air Force is regenerating 1980s B-1B Lancer airframes from desert storage at the same...
HMS Westminster and HMS Argyll went into port for refits in 2022 and never came out. Britain could not crew them and its aircraft...
Supporters of the Ford-class counter that the carrier’s power generation and sortie capacity make it uniquely capable of sustaining high-intensity air operations, and that...
The Air Force originally planned to buy 750 Advanced Tactical Fighters. The number came down in stages until fewer than 200 were built and...