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In 1985, an administrative sergeant assigned to America’s SR-71 unit attempted to sell top-secret intelligence about the airframe to the Soviets. Ultimately, the sergeant...
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In 1985, an administrative sergeant assigned to America’s SR-71 unit attempted to sell top-secret intelligence about the airframe to the Soviets. Ultimately, the sergeant...
The days are numbered for the United States Air Force’s Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, the first fifth-generation stealth fighter to enter service. While several...
Meet the Okha: Japan’s Kamikaze Pilots Became the First Rocket Men – Desperate times call for desperate measures, but few would have expected that...
Fast Facts About a Fast Plane: the Saab 35 – Sweden’s Dragon – The Saab 35 Draken was one of the first fully supersonic...
Aahh, the dear old SR-71 Blackbird, subject of my first-ever article for 19FortyFive. Arguably the crowning achievement of aerospace engineering genius Clarence “Kelly” Johnson...
Russia’s Attempt to Build An SR-71 – During the Cold War, the Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird” earned a reputation that no aircraft could catch it, and it could even outrun...
The Germans – their current pacifistic culture notwithstanding – have a long history of innovation when it comes to weaponry. Everything from the first...
Was the B-24 bomber the best bomber in all of World War II? What about the B-17 or B-29? Here is the story of...
A Truly Legendary F/A-18 is in the Collection of the Air And Space Museum: The United States Navy’s McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet proved to...
When looking at the developmental history of India’s homegrown HAL Tejas fighter plane, you could see a glass half-empty or one half-full. From the...