History & Legends, Military Aviation
The crews called them “the eleven days.” From December 18 to 29, 1972 — with a pause on Christmas Day — more than 200 B-52 Stratofortresses flew 729 sorties over Hanoi and Haiphong, dropping over 20,000 tons of ordnance on the most heavily defended...
Aviation World, Military Aviation, News
Tom Cruise is going back to the danger zone. At CinemaCon in Las Vegas on April 17, 2026, Paramount Pictures confirmed what aviation fans and film audiences worldwide had been hoping for: Top Gun 3 is officially in development. Cruise will reprise his role as Captain...
History & Legends, Military Aviation
On the morning of March 10, 1967, Captain Bob Pardo looked out the left side of his F-4 Phantom cockpit at another F-4 Phantom that was about to stop flying. The second jet belonged to his wingman, Captain Earl Aman, and it was bleeding fuel from a hole the size of a...
Aviation World, Military Aviation
The wounded officer sat in darkness on a rocky mountainside, bleeding from shrapnel wounds, surrounded by hostile terrain. His F-15E had gone down fourteen hours earlier in Iranian airspace. The search helicopters had cycled through their on-station time. The dark had...
History & Legends, Military Aviation
The caution panel lights up like a Christmas tree. The stick goes dead. The jet rolls left, nose pitching toward the Tigris River and the rooftops of Baghdad below. Captain Kim “Killer Chick” Campbell has maybe two seconds to decide: eject over one of the...
History & Legends, Military Aviation
On the night of 16–17 May 1943, nineteen specially modified Avro Lancaster bombers roared across the English Channel at treetop level, carrying a weapon that defied every known principle of aerial bombardment. Their target: the massive hydroelectric dams of...
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