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In 1956, a Navy test pilot named Tom Attridge did something no one thought possible: he shot himself down. Diving past the speed of...
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In 1956, a Navy test pilot named Tom Attridge did something no one thought possible: he shot himself down. Diving past the speed of...
Landing a jet on an aircraft carrier at night, on a pitching deck in bad weather, is something many Navy pilots say frightens them...
The F-14 Tomcat was never meant to fly on the TF30. Designed for the Pratt & Whitney F401, it got the TF30 as a...
Vice Admiral Thomas Connolly famously said the F-111B Navy variant lacked “enough thrust in all Christendom to make a Navy fighter out of that...
The F-14 Tomcat was retired far too soon—and now its maker may be on the verge of winning the biggest U.S. Navy fighter contract...
In August 1990, two U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcats intercepted what they thought was a hostile high-speed aircraft over the Red Sea—only to discover it...
What You Need to Know: The United States Navy lost dozens of F-14 Tomcat air-superiority fighters and an estimated 68 American aircrew over the...
Key Points and Summary: By 1968, United States Navy fighter pilots flying F-4 Phantom II aircraft over North Vietnam had seen their kill ratio...
Between the original Top Gun movie in 1986 and its sequel, Top Gun: Maverick in 2022, 36 years passed. It now appears that we...
Having dominated the unfriendly skies for the Navy from 1974 to 2006, the variable-sweep “swing wing” plane was meant to protect US carriers and...