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‘We Lose Pieces Bigger Than What You Fly’: A Valkyrie Pilot’s Response to a YF-12 Pilot Bragging About Mach 3 Hours Is the Best...
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‘We Lose Pieces Bigger Than What You Fly’: A Valkyrie Pilot’s Response to a YF-12 Pilot Bragging About Mach 3 Hours Is the Best...
F-14 Pilots Were Forced to ‘Fly the Engine’ — Managing Throttle Inputs Carefully Instead of Fighting the Enemy The iconic F-14 Tomcat evolved into...
SR-71 Blackbird Pilot David Peters: ‘Very Few Missiles Could Make Up 36 or More Miles Per Minute’ The iconic SR-71 Blackbird was America’s spy...
The Spruance-Class Destroyer Was as Large as a WWII Cruiser — Congress Thought It Didn’t Look Scary Enough and Almost Killed the Program The...
The F-16 Was Designed as a Daytime Air Superiority Fighter — LANTIRN Targeting Pods and Precision Munitions Turned It Into an All-Weather Strike Platform...
19FortyFive Photographed the A-7 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson In academia (as well as the culinary world of...
D-21B: The SR-71 Blackbird’s Little Brother Was a Mach 3 Spy Drone — It Made Its Maiden Flight on the Same Day as the...
The VZ-9AV Avrocar Was a 26.5-Foot Flying Disk Powered by Three Continental J69-T9 Turbojets With 927 Pounds of Thrust Each The Avrocar program was...
The SR-71 Blackbird Grew Out of the CIA’s A-12 Oxcart Program — And Immediately Competed With CORONA Reconnaissance Satellites for Funding At 19FortyFive, part...
The MiG-29K Was Built for the Admiral Kuznetsov — Russia’s Only Aircraft Carrier Has Spent More Time in Port Than at Sea Built by...