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Yes, The U.S. Navy Also Took The Spitfire Into Battle During World War II
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Mar 5, 2021
How The World’s First Privately Owned Fleet Of F-16 Aggressor Jets Became A Reality
By James Deboer / Updated Feb 24, 2021
The “Lady Bird Special” Was The Lowliest Of Air Force One Aircraft
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 25, 2021
Royal Air Force Turned A Torpedo Bomber Into A Flying Flamethrower During World War II
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 20, 2021
The Story Of The Jet That Would Have Delivered South Africa’s Nuclear Bomb
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 18, 2021
This Stretched Super FB-111 Was A Low-Cost Challenger To The B-1 Bomber
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 9, 2021
Behold The SR-71 Blackbird’s Nest At Dawn
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jan 1, 2021
Britain’s Shackleton Radar Plane Was Born As An Already Antiquated Cold War Dinosaur
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Dec 24, 2020
Chasing Soviet Missiles In The Cobra Ball From A Desolate Rock In The Aleutian Islands
By Robert Hopkins / Updated Dec 16, 2020
Chuck Yeager’s Amazing Life Told Through The Airplanes He Flew
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Dec 9, 2020
Yes, Serbian Air Defenses Did Hit Another F-117 During Operation Allied Force In 1999
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Dec 2, 2020
Test Pilot Explains The YF-23 Black Widow’s Awesomely Innovative Flight Control System
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 27, 2020
How A Canadian Pilot Became The First Westerner To Fly The Feared MiG-29 Fulcrum
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
The Forgotten Fireball Made The First Jet-Powered Carrier Landing By Accident
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
You Can Buy The World’s Only Flyable P-82 Twin Mustang For $12,000,000
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 27, 2020
The Day The Royal Air Force Lost Six Jet Fighters In Just 45 Minutes
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
A Dozen Of The Most Unusual Variants Of The Ubiquitous KC-135 Family Of Aircraft
By Robert Hopkins / Updated Nov 27, 2020
The AH-1W Super Cobra Has Been Retired From The Marine Corps After 34 Years Of Service
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
The Amazing Tale Of Bravo November, The British Chinook Helicopter That Refused To Die
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
This Soviet Twin-Rotor Helicopter Design Was A High-Speed Rival To The Mi-24 Hind
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 25, 2020
The Nanchang J-12 Is The Lightweight Chinese Fighter You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 5, 2020
Veteran Flight Tester On How The YA-7F Strikefighter Was Really A Jet Recycling Program
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 10, 2020
Skyhawks Over Cuba: VC-10 “Challengers” And Their TA-4J’s Unique Cold War Mission
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020
Early On, The A-10 Warthog’s Legendary Gun Was Both a Blessing and a Curse
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 5, 2020
The Crazy Aircraft Carrier Hangar Catapults Of World War II
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020
The AGM-122 “Sidearm” Came To Be From A Novel Missile Recycling Scheme
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020
Remember The Fallen With This Chilling “Grumman Cats” Missing Man Formation
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020
The U.S. Air Force’s Last Tail Gunner Has Retired
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 3, 2020
The Time A F-4G Wild Weasel’s Anti-Radiation Missile Blew Apart A B-52’s Tail
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 3, 2020
Ryan Aeronautical Had Big Plans for the Vertifan Jump Jet
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 3, 2020
France Turned the B-26 Invader Into a Colonial Night Fighter
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 3, 2020
Taking The F-14A Tomcat On Cruise For My First Time
By Paul Nickell And Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 3, 2020
Lockheed Once Pitched the Massive C-5 as a Flying Command Center
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 3, 2020
The Pentagon Thought it Could Retire the U-2 in 1969
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 3, 2020
Watch These Old World War II Bombers Launch Target Drones
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 3, 2020
Aircraft Carrier “Bow Prongs” and Why They Are Disappearing
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 3, 2020
John Glenn’s Combat Nickname Was “Old Magnet Ass” For All The Right Reasons
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 3, 2020
Behold the Pioneering A-6C Intruder With its Massive Ventral Sensor Pod
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 3, 2020
SAAB’s Viggen Could Stick a Landing and Takeoff Again Like No Other Fighter
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 3, 2020
The “Toxic Death” Paint Scheme Was The F-117 Nighthawk’s Most Outrageous
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 2, 2020
Pour Out an Iced Tea for Bob Hoover
By Chris Cantle / Updated Jul 2, 2020
The A-7 Attack Jet’s Head Up Display Was A Revolution In Air Combat Tech
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jun 28, 2020
Incredible Lecture By F-14 Designer Explains Why The Tomcat Owes A Lot To The F-111
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jun 26, 2020
The Stealthy F-117 Nighthawk Could Have Executed Nuclear Strikes Against The Soviet Union
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jun 17, 2020
The F-111 Aardvark’s Air Inlet Spike Was A Work Of Engineering Art
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 3, 2020
The SR-71 Blackbird Was Almost Brought Back For The Global War On Terror
By Stephen Walker / Updated Mar 28, 2020
CIA’s Predecessor To The SR-71 Blackbird Tested Electron Guns To Hide From Radars
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 25, 2020
This Strategic Air Command Airpower Demonstration From 1987 Is Just Bonkers
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 8, 2020
This Presentation On America’s Secret MiG Squadron By The Man Who Built It Is Incredible
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jan 29, 2020
The B-52 Almost Got An Ahead Of Its Time Air-Launched Ballistic Missile Named Skybolt
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jan 23, 2020
Check Out This Rare Footage Of Red Eagle MiGs At Tonopah Test Range Airport
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 15, 2019
This Is What A Northrop F-23A Would’ve Looked Like If It Had Beaten Lockheed’s F-22
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019
Test Pilot Recounts F-117’s Wobbly First Flight And Entering Into Its Top Secret World
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019
The Army Nearly Adopted This Stealthy OH-58X Kiowa Warrior Variant
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Dec 1, 2019
Origins Of Stealth Black Hawks Date Back Over Three Decades Before The Bin Laden Raid
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019
A-4 Skyhawks Had These Crazy Thermal Shields To Protect Pilots From Nuclear Blasts
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019
This Is What Grumman’s Proposed F-14 Super Tomcat 21 Would Have Actually Looked Like
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019