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Holloman had just received the new F-15A Eagle and didn’t know how to use it yet. Thus, the old hats in the F-4s cleaned...
27/10/2025

Holloman had just received the new F-15A Eagle and didn’t know how to use it yet. Thus, the old hats in the F-4s cleaned house on them. Sadly, the markings ...

VF-202 F-4N Phantom with F-15 kill markings from mock combat training at Holloman Air Force Base.

My last 90 days on active dutyIn my last 90 days on active duty, our skipper, Pete Easterling*, wanted to give the new g...
27/10/2025

My last 90 days on active duty

In my last 90 days on active duty, our skipper, Pete Easterling*, wanted to give the new guys some time at the boat. Since I was a ...

Cold War naval pilot assigned to NAS Key West detachment with F-8 Crusaders and Top Secret clearance in 1967.

Bird strikesBird strikes occur frequently. According to the Department of Defense Partners in Flight (DoD PIF) program, ...
27/10/2025

Bird strikes

Bird strikes occur frequently. According to the Department of Defense Partners in Flight (DoD PIF) program, roughly 3,000 wildlife-strike events are documented annually ...

Military bird strikes: 3,000 annual military aircraft incidents, 2,300 civil. Prevention programs include habitat modification, pilot training.

Landing Signal OfficersResponsible for making instant judgments, Landing Signal Officers (LSOs) direct aircraft landing ...
27/10/2025

Landing Signal Officers

Responsible for making instant judgments, Landing Signal Officers (LSOs) direct aircraft landing aboard ship, and often know more about what’s happening with an approaching aircraft than its pilot. The LSO ...

Landing Signal Officers guide aircraft landings aboard carriers, making split-second judgments about approaching aircraft's positioning and safety.

SR-71 emergency landing at Grand Forks AFBThe Lockheed SR-71 Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance dominated the skies for...
26/10/2025

SR-71 emergency landing at Grand Forks AFB

The Lockheed SR-71 Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance dominated the skies for nearly 24 years as the world's ...

SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3 reconnaissance aircraft flew 24 years, gathered intelligence at 80,000 feet surveying vast territories.

The SR-71The SR-71, commonly referred to as the “Blackbird,” is an advanced, long-range strategic reconnaissance that ...
26/10/2025

The SR-71

The SR-71, commonly referred to as the “Blackbird,” is an advanced, long-range strategic reconnaissance that was developed from the Lockheed A-12 and YF-12A ...

SR-71 Blackbird strategic reconnaissance aircraft served 24 years as world's fastest operational aircraft surveying 100000 square miles hourly.

The clip in this post features a recording of the Republic XF-84H Thunderscreech, a turboprop plane with a supersonic pr...
26/10/2025

The clip in this post features a recording of the Republic XF-84H Thunderscreech, a turboprop plane with a supersonic propeller

This post includes a recording of the Republic XF-84H Thunderscreech, a turboprop ...

XF-84H Thunderscreech supersonic propeller caused people to faint and vomit. Turboprop designed combining jet speed with propeller efficiency.

‘The remains of SR-71 Ichi-Ban were buried at sea with full honors. The occasion occurred at 1157 hours on Christmas E...
26/10/2025

‘The remains of SR-71 Ichi-Ban were buried at sea with full honors. The occasion occurred at 1157 hours on Christmas Eve of 1989,’ Colonel (Ret) Don Emmons, ...

SR-71 Ichi-Ban crashed after engine failure on Christmas Eve 1989 with crew ejecting safely over Pacific waters.

Breitling Jet Team L-39 aircraft to train fighter pilotsBabcock International Group recently purchased 11 L-39 “Albatros...
26/10/2025

Breitling Jet Team L-39 aircraft to train fighter pilots

Babcock International Group recently purchased 11 L-39 “Albatros” aircraft as part of its international fighter pilot training academy, Alert 5 first noted.

The ...

Babcock International Group purchases 11 L-39 aircraft from Apache Aviation to support international fighter pilot training programs.

U-2 using color film instead of black and white filmThe U-2 offers surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities at high ...
25/10/2025

U-2 using color film instead of black and white film

The U-2 offers surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities at high altitudes and in all weather conditions, both during the day and night, ...

U-2 reconnaissance aircraft provides high-altitude surveillance using color film instead of traditional black-and-white photography.

The diversion occurred on Nov. 9, 1989, and the was a FGR.2, serial XV476. As we reported in a previous article, it ...
25/10/2025

The diversion occurred on Nov. 9, 1989, and the was a FGR.2, serial XV476.

As we reported in a previous article, it was on Apr. 9, 1990, that a RAF Tornado GR1 participating in a ...

RAF Phantom emergency landing reveals F-117 Nighthawk silhouette stenciled on tail fin at secret Tonopah Air Force Base.

O’club at NAS SigonellaThis event happened during the 1966-67 deployment of USS Shangri-La (CVA-38) to the Mediterranean...
25/10/2025

O’club at NAS Sigonella

This event happened during the 1966-67 deployment of USS Shangri-La (CVA-38) to the Mediterranean Sea. I’d been an F-8 pilot in VF-13 for three ...

USS Shangri-La F-8 Crusader squadron deployment story from 1966-67 Mediterranean cruise to NAS Sigonella.

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