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The F-15E was the backbone of U.S. and coalition operations in Iraq. The Strike Eagle constantly dropped weapons onto Iraqi SAM and AAA emplacements that engaged Coalition aircraft undertaking this mission. F-15Es of the 4th Fighter Wing (FW) saw most prolific use, engaging Iraqi armour before Coalition ground troops moved …

On May 10, 1972 Lt. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, flying an F-4J Phantom from VF-96 Fighting Falcons (callsign “Showtime 100”) off the carrier USS Constellation (CV-64), was returning from a flak suppression mission over Haiphong, North Vietnam. In Cunningham’s back seat was Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) Willie Driscoll. After the strike …

SR-71C S/N 61-7981 was nicknamed “The Bastard” since it was a hybrid comprised of the rear fuselage of the first YF-12A and a functional engineering mockup of an SR-71A forward fuselage built for static testing The plane was built to replace the second of the two B model trainers after …

In this article, we will share with you videos of the Top 5 Fighter jets landing on an Aircraft carrier in bad weather and low visibility 1) F/A-18 recovering on the aircraft carrier in bad weather This video was recorded on USS Theodore Roosevelt on Sept. 14, 2003. The flattop …

Michigan Air National Guard A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft fly over the beaches of Normandy, France, as part of the commemoration ceremonies for D-Day 74, June 3. The flight represents the first assigned mission for the 107th Attack Wing of New York Air National Guard in France since World War II. …

on Oct. 4, 1989, a B-1B Lancer from Dyess AFB performed a successful emergency landing on lakebed runway #33. The crew was uninjured and the bomber suffered only slight damage to the underside of the nose. The bomber landed at Edwards AFB after an increasingly desperate 12-hour flight in which …

The beautiful main image of this article feature the famous photo of an SR-71 Blackbird‘s performing a super low flyby. The story behind this event is quite interesting and is explained by Brian Shul in his book Sled Driver. “I was flying the SR-71 out of RAF Mildenhall, England, with …

The zero-length launch system or zero-length take-off system (ZLL, ZLTO, ZEL, ZELL) It was a system whereby jet fighters and attack aircraft were intended to be placed on short-burn duration, often solid-fuel, “drop-away” rocket booster units, deployed with mobile launch platforms. The U.S. Air Force, the Luftwaffe, and the Soviets’ …

ATLAS-I stands for  Air Force Weapons Lab Transmission-Line Aircraft Simulator It is a top-secret testing facility, code-named Trestle, was built close to Kirtland Air Force Base (AFB), on the southeast of the city of Albuquerque in New Mexico. ATLAS-I was a matchless testing contraption for the effects of electromagnetic pulses …

The incident took place on 5 September 2005 The reason of the crash was the pilot landing the Sukhoi Su-33 at too great a speed due to which  arresting cable broke That causes the arresting gear to fail under the great strain it was put under. As you can see, the …