The B-47 Stratojet was the world’s first swept wing bomber and the first to use a bicycle arrangement landing gear, which was necessary because of the thin wings. It was also the first plane built ...
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 ...
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 ...
G-induced Loss Of Consciousness (abbreviated as G-LOC) is a term generally used in aerospace physiology to describe a loss of consciousness occurring from excessive and sustained g-forces draining ...
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 ...
The Douglas F3D Skyknight was an early but effective attempt at combining new technologies together in a lethal package capable of shipboard operation. Whereas most fighters relied on speed and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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