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Article source: Aviation Geek club Jay Lacklen is a former B-52 pilot with 12,500 flying hours and the author of two books Flying the Line: An Air Force Pilot’s Journey and Flying the Line: An Air Force Pilot’s Journey Volume Two: Military Airlift Command. He’s working on the last book …

The following U.S. Navy video, called “The Lucky Few”, tells the nearly forgotten story of the incredible CH-47A Chinook mission flown by Maj Ba Van Nguyen to save his family Daring escape story from the 1975 Fall of Saigon Vietnamese pilot loaded family onto the helicopter and tailed U.S. choppers …

Sattar Alvi: PAF Pilot Who Shot down an Israeli Mirage while flying a Syrian MiG-21 During the 1973 Arab–Israeli ‘Yom Kippur’ War, 16 Pakistan Air Force pilots volunteered to leave for the Middle East in order to support Egypt and Syria but by the time they arrived Egypt had already …

Operation Vengeance Was an American military operation to kill Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Imperial Japanese Navy on April 18th, 1943, during the Solomon Islands campaign. Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was killed on Bougainville Island when his transport bomber was shot down …

William Bruce “Bill” Overstreet Jr. was an American Fighter Pilot and a veteran of the 357th Fighter Group, 363rd Fighter Squadron of the United States Army Air Forces during WWII. He is best known for his solo pursuit of a Luftwaffe BG-109G underneath the arches of the Eiffel Tower in …

The operation was a deception-based mission during the Vietnam War devised to lure fighter aircraft of the Vietnam People’s Air Force (VPAF)- into battle where the odds were stacked against the defenders. The Mission was planned in response to North Vietnamese tactics during the Operation Rolling Thunder aerial-bombardment campaign wherein …

  This is the story of “Old 666,” a B-17E Flying Fortress assigned to the Pacific theater of war. The pilot of the famed mission was Lt. Col (then Captian) Jay Zeamer. The mission would earn him and 2nd Lt. Joseph Sarnoski each a medal of honor, and every other …

Number 20 Squadron of the Royal Air Force No. 20 (R) Squadron of the Royal Air Force was from September 1992 until March 2010 It is a  reserve squadron, it could be called upon for combat duties if necessary The 20th Squadron was rearmed on Jaguar with Harrier fighters, new …

YF-16CCV: F-16 Fighting Falcon Variant   A characteristic feature of the YF-16CCV (the aircraft with the configuration defined by the control system) was two additional inclined front rudders under the air intake. The aircraft was used for “independent” tests on maneuverability. Here the term “independence” meant the ability to maneuver …

General Dynamics F-16XL Fighting Falcon In Action The F-16XL aircraft was externally different from other experimental F-16s. It had the shape of a wing in a plane, which can be defined as a “modified delta with a variable sweep.” It was developed jointly with the NASA agency to study the …