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F-100 Super Sabre changed the US Air Force in many different ways. But first does not always mean the best. On October 14, 1947,...
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F-100 Super Sabre changed the US Air Force in many different ways. But first does not always mean the best. On October 14, 1947,...
A-12 Oxcart Spy Plane, a History: On October 30, 1967, a CIA spy-plane soared eighty-four thousand feet over Hanoi in northern Vietnam, traveling faster than...
The first generation M16 wasn’t a popular weapon when it first came out in 1966 during the Vietnam War. It jammed and malfunctioned extensively....
“I don’t want no teenage queen/ I just want my M14 … ” Military film buffs will instantly recognize those two lines as part...
When pilots do dumb and costly things in the air, it can cost a life or an airplane. To find a good example of...
Meet the A-1 Skyraider: As I noted in my 19FortyFive article on the P-80/F-80 Shooting Star, it was the Korean War that ushered in...
“Fighter pukes make movies. Bomber pilots make history!” Ironically, the first time I heard this saying was actually in a movie, that being 1991’s Flight of the Intruder,...
“Don’t give me an F-105. / ‘Cause I love being alive. She’s great for attack, she soaks all the more flak, / Don’t give me an...
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk Facts -Developed for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps in the early 1950s, the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk...
I have always been fixated on military aviation, which is naturally one of the reasons I joined the US Air Force on a pilot...