MIGHTY 25: Fighter Pilot Lt. Amanda Lee is flying through barriers
The Blue Angels were created in 1946 when the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Chester Nimitz, shared his vision of having an exhibition team. The goal was to encourage the…
5 differences between Navy and Air Force fighter pilots
Both the Navy and Air Force fly jets, right? So what’s the difference between fighter pilots from the two branches of service?
The Air Force scored the world’s only supersonic air-to-air gun kill in Vietnam
The supersonic air-to-air missiles of the F-4 Phantom II were notoriously unreliable in the skies over Vietnam. If the Phantom a pilot was flying was an early model and those…
7 thoughts a fighter pilot has during a dogfight
Requirements officers at the Pentagon and defense companies like to tout the “beyond visual range” capabilities of modern aircraft. On paper, these days a pilot could earn ace status and never see his or her opponents.
However, air wars…
This is the best aerial footage of a raging Swedish fighter you’ll see today
It doesn’t matter if you’re on a speeding boat, jumping off a building, or zooming through the air on a fighter; Gyro-stabilized Systems (GSS) makes some of the best gear for acti…
Hall of Fame test pilot Brig. Gen. Robert ‘Bob’ Cardenas passes away at 102
Brigadier General Robert “Bob” Cardenas was a WWII veteran who became a legendary Air Force test pilot. He also saw combat during the Vietnam War before he retired in 1973…
This Air Force fighter pilot retired a day before he turned 60
Military service can seriously age you. Whether you’re pulling Gs in a fighter plane, rucking to the ends of the earth in the infantry, or getting tossed around in high…
How well do you speak fighter pilot lingo?
You can’t launch if you don’t know the lingo. Take this quiz and see if you’re ready to strap on your oxygen mask and talk to your wingman.
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That time a fighter pilot ejected into a thunderstorm and rode the lightning
Marine Corps Lt. Col. William H. Rankin had flown combat flight operations in both World War II and the Korean War, but it wasn’t enemy fire that came closest to killing him during his military flying career. It was a summer thunderstorm over the …
America’s highest-scoring ace once killed a crocodile with his fighter plane
Major Richard Ira Bong is also known as the Ace of Aces for his claim to fame as America’s highest-scoring flying ace. He is credited with 40 confirmed aerial kills…