That’s a clean Eagle
How about this short vid from Boeing showing a Qatar Emiri Air Force F-15QA Ababil preparing for flight demonstrations at the Dubai Airshow at the hands of one of the company’s test crews. “During...
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Keeping Reagan-era F-15s in the Air Via CNC Mills and 3D Printing
It’s hard to believe, but the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is a Vietnam-era aircraft that first flew over 51 years ago on 27 July 1972, although the first Eagle bound for a combat squadron wasn’t...
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St. Louis Slugger
No matter what you call it: The Double Ugly, Lead Sled, Flying Anvil, Flying Brick, Snoopy, Rhino, Old Smokey, the triumph of thrust over aerodynamics, et. al, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom is a...
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Red Tails and Immortals Share a Ride for First Time
The Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm’s 809 Naval Air Squadron, “The Immortals,” have been shuttered since 1982, after being stood up to fly Sea Harriers from HMS Invincible during the Falklands. Before that,...
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Vale, Major Wycoff
Titan I missile emerges from its silo at Vandenberg Operational System Test Facility in 1960. In June 1960, the first flight of armed and operational silo-based SM-68A/HGM-25A Titan I ICBMs, part of...
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Solo Before Solo was Cool
Happy first day of winter! Dig these great 1960 Cold War (see what I did there?) Kodachromes from the LIFE Archive of the SAC Alert strip for the 436th BS (Heavy), 4238th Strategic Wing, at Barksdale...
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Putting the ‘Fortress’ into the B-17: A Look at the Guns
It is no understatement to say that the B-17 bomber is one of the most famous airplanes to fly a mission. Today we look at the hardware that lived up to its well-deserved “Flying Fortress” name. When...
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Skull Island Tomahawk
A 45th Fighter Squadron Curtiss P-40N Tomahawk, “Lackanocki,” is seen refueling from an F-2 type servicing truck pulled by a Cletrac M2 high-speed tractor while at Funafuti Airfield, Nanumea, Gilbert...
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‘I weighed 125 lbs. and never would have survived the rations in a POW Camp…’
What a couple of great period Kodachromes that really put you in the head of an 8th Air Force bombardier in 1944. First, a window view inside the Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress bomber “Times A-Wastin'”...
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Thomas Patten Stafford was a tall Oklahoman who, born too late for WWII, nonetheless served in the Oklahoma National Guard during high school and college. Starting his undergrad career at the...
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