When an ejection seat may represent a crew member’s last chance to survive, there can be no compromise. Ejection seats are placed into the cockpit and usually attach to rails via a set of rollers on ...

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Filmed by our friend Dafydd Phillips, the cool video in this post features the legendary Cold War Era MiG-29 fighter jet display at Pacific Airshow Huntington Beach 2026. He explains; ‘You don’t see ...

In March 1960, even before delivering the first A-12 Oxcart prototype, Kelly Johnson talked with USAF General Hal Estes about possibly converting the A-12 into an interceptor, the YF-12 Blackbird, a ...

Advancements during the Cold War in Soviet long range patrol and bomber aircraft dictated a requirement for a fleet defense fighter that could engage high-altitude bombers from well beyond visual ...

NASA to bring back to fly SR-71 Blackbird? 27 years after it was retired, one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft may soon fly again.

Hovering a helicopter is very difficult, at least in the beginning. Everyone who has ever flown a helicopter – or tried to – knows this. It is unlike practically anything else. It takes a great deal ...

The Lockheed F-117A was developed in response to an Air Force request for an aircraft capable of attacking high value targets without being detected by enemy radar. By the 1970s, new materials and ...