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.

The F-4E Phantom II fighter bomber is essentially an F-4D with improved J79-GE-17 engines (900 pounds more static sea level thrust each) and an M61A1 “Vulcan” 20mm cannon. Operational experience ...

The F/A-18 Hornet became the US’ first all-weather fighter and attack aircraft, and was designed for traditional strike applications such as interdiction and close air support without compromising its ...

Aircraft carriers are the centerpiece of America’s Naval forces – the most adaptable and survivable airfields in the world. On any given day, Sailors aboard an aircraft carrier and its air wing come ...

Responding to the US Army Air Forces’ requirement for a strategic bomber with intercontinental range, Consolidated Vultee (later Convair) designed the B-36 Peacemaker during World War II. The airplane ...

The third day of Operation Desert Storm (Jan. 19, 1991) saw one of the most exciting engagements of the entire war fought out over the skies of Iraq. Part of a four F-15C ship, Eagle pilots Capt Cesar ...

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 ...

With immediate post-war emphasis on massed bomber formations, and a hard-won lesson from the Second World War that bombers could only survive when escorted by long-range fighters, the advent of the ...

Always at the forefront of Arab states when it came to the development of its armed forces and armament industry, during the 1970s Iraq embarked on an ambitious program of becoming self-sufficient in ...

As explained by Douglas C. Dildy in his book “Big Week” 1944, Operation Argument and the breaking of the Jagdwaffe, during “Big Week” [history’s first-ever successful offensive counter-air (OCA) ...

‘My crew chief asked if I wanted him to paint a Winnebago sillouette on the fuselage to record my “kill,”’ Brett Kriger, FB-111 pilot. Note: the featured image of this post shows an F-111F aircraft ...

The Rolls Royce Merlin is a direct descendant of the Kestrel engine, the power unit from the Hawker Hart and its many variants; an enlarged version of which powered the Supermarine S6 which won the ...