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63-Year-Old Retired Russian Fighter Pilot Shot Down In Su-25 Over Ukraine
By Howard Altman / Updated May 24, 2022
Ex-Green Berets Say Horse Soldier Lessons Ring True In Ukraine
By Howard Altman / Updated May 17, 2022
Area 51 Test Pilot Died During Heroic Su-27 Flight: Report
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 7, 2022
Ukrainian Officer’s Defiant Dispatch From Inside Mariupol’s Besieged Steel Plant
By Howard Altman / Updated Apr 29, 2022
Father Flew First F-15 Eagles Into Europe, Son Just Flew Them Out
By Jamie Hunter / Updated Apr 27, 2022
F-15 Eagle Driver On What It Is Like Flying Against Ukraine’s Fighter Pilots
By Jamie Hunter / Updated Mar 29, 2022
X-32’s Test Pilot On Why It Lost To What Became The F-35
By Brett Tingley / Updated Feb 4, 2022
An Air Stewardess Fell 33,000 Feet And Lived To Tell The Tale 50 Years Ago Today
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 27, 2022
SEAL Team Six Founder Richard Marcinko Has Died
By Brian O'Rourke / Updated Dec 27, 2021
An OV-10 Bronco Pilot’s Adventure Teaching Thai Flyers Forward Air Control
By ‘Danno’ / Updated Oct 28, 2021
Life On The High Seas Aboard A Tin Can Destroyer During The Cold War
By Juan Rivera / Updated Oct 21, 2021
Confessions Of A Navy F-14 Fleet Pilot Turned F-5 Aggressor
By Francesco "Paco" Chierici and Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 28, 2021
Confessions Of An A-6 Intruder Pilot
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 28, 2021
What 9/11 Was Like For The Only American That Watched It From Space
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Sep 11, 2021
New Light Shed On The Once Top Secret Tacit Blue Aircraft By Veteran Program Manager
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Aug 10, 2021
The Most Replayed Carrier Crash In History Happened 70 Years Ago Today
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jun 23, 2021
What It Was Like Dogfighting In The F-14 Against America’s Secret MiG Squadron
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jun 3, 2021
The Making Of A Submarine Hunting S-3 Viking Crewman
By Kevin Noonan and Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 30, 2020
We Talk Tomcats With A Veteran Navy Test Pilot On The F-14’s 50th Birthday
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 21, 2020
F-16s Rescue Desperate Special Operators In This Chilling Account With Gun Camera Footage
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Dec 18, 2020
Inside The Air Force’s Elite Aggressor Program With One Of Its Top Pilots
By Jamie Hunter / Updated Dec 15, 2020
Chuck Yeager’s Amazing Life Told Through The Airplanes He Flew
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Dec 9, 2020
F-15 Eagle Pilot Explains Exactly How He Downed Three Migs During Two Wars
By Jamie Hunter / 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
How Israel Got This MiG-21 That Sean Connery Posed Next To Was Like A Real-Life Bond Movie
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
The Secretive Inventor Of The Navy’s Bizarre ‘UFO Patents’ Finally Talks
By Brett Tingley / Updated Oct 9, 2020
Veteran Sailor On Why Navy Ships Can Be Most Vulnerable In Port And How To Change That
By Aaron Amick / Updated Jul 15, 2020
Veteran Flight Tester On How The YA-7F Strikefighter Was Really A Jet Recycling Program
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 10, 2020
Making Steam: The Life And Times Of A U.S. Navy Chief Engineer
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020
Making Steam: High Seas Tales And Commentary On Today’s Navy From A Chief Engineer
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
Family Demands To Know How A 200-Pound Antique Anvil Disappeared From Area 51
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 3, 2020
USAF’s Deadliest F-16 Pilot Talks F-15 Retirement, Syria, and Pilot Shortage
By Tyler Rogoway / 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
A Helicopter Crash Almost Kept Gene Cernan From Going To The Moon
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
Pour Out an Iced Tea for Bob Hoover
By Chris Cantle / Updated Jul 2, 2020
Major Taj “Cabbie” Sareen Is A Hero To Remember On This Memorial Day
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 2, 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
When Secret Mystery Planes Landed At The Air Bases Where I Was Stationed
By Stephen Walker / Updated Mar 25, 2020
We Talk Giant V-Shaped Airships, Space, And Phoenix Lights With JP Aerospace’s Founder
By Brett Tingley / Updated Feb 5, 2020
Retired Submariner Turned Gamer Gives Amazing Video Explainers On Sub Tactics And Tech
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019
Stan Lee Fought The Nazis As A U.S. Army Playwright During WWII
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Dec 1, 2019
The Only Man Who Flew Both The F-22 And The YF-23 On Why The YF-23 Lost
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019
Veteran Navy Pilot Shares 10 Interesting Things About Flying Seahawk Helicopters
By Chris Harmer / Updated Dec 1, 2019
Veteran U.S. Navy Submariners Explain Why Fire Is So Deadly Aboard A Submarine
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019
Area 51 Veteran And CIA Electronic Warfare Pioneer Weigh In On Navy UFO Encounters
By Tim McMillan / Updated Nov 25, 2019
This Mini Documentary Shows What A Sailor’s Life Is Like Aboard A U.S. Navy Destroyer
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 6, 2019
You Can Buy Paul Allen’s MiG-29 Fulcrum Jet Fighter
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Aug 13, 2019
Confessions Of A U.S. Marine F/A-18 Hornet Maintainer
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 25, 2019
Remembering Hugh Hefner And His Iconic Jet Black DC-9 “Big Bunny”
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 16, 2019