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FighterSweep Fans, when things like this happen, we always hope and pray for a positive outcome. Unfortunately, yesterday’s crash of a P-47 Thunderbolt into the Hudson River did not turn out as we’d hoped. The pilot of the aircraft, Mr. Bill Gordon, died in the incident. The pilot of a World War II plane was […]

FighterSweep Fans, we’ve received news that a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt has crashed into the Hudson River in New York City, where Fleet Week is currently underway. According to initial reports, the aircraft suffered an engine failure before it came down. Good news is the Police have reportedly pulled a survivor out of the water. Police […]

For this week’s Burner Friday we’re taking a look at an Air National Guard unit with a long tenure in the mighty McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) F-15 Eagle, going all the way back to 1995. Over 20 years ago, the Florida Air National Guard began writing its chapter with the Eagle when it transitioned to the WGASF from […]

Does anyone remember the Strategic Artificially Intelligent Nuclear Transports from the movie Short Circuit… Johnny 5? Wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper too? The film featured highly mobile robotics armed with small, directed energy (i.e. laser) weapons, and one scene showed a demonstration of the S.A.I.N.T. robots eliminating enemy tanks, trucks, and the like with ease. Now […]

In other words, don’t make any plans for the next two and a half days… In a mission to showcase the USAF’s long range strike capability, as well as participate in an exercise hosted by our Jordanian allies, two B-52’s departed Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, and flew to Jordan to drop their bombs. […]

The Virginian-Pilot is reporting the crash of two Boeing F/A-18 Hornets off the coast of North Carolina during a training mission. Four people have been recovered and have been rushed to the hospital. Petty Officer Fagal Nifin of the U.S. Coast Guard stated four aircrew have been recovered from the water following the crash and […]

FighterSweep Fans, we’ve heard a lot about folks who are disgruntled with the Air Force’s new B-21 Long Range Strike Bomber. Senator John McCain, as an example, has repeatedly threatened to block funding for the LRSB because of the proposed “cost-plus” contract structure. Others have also bad-mouthed the program because of a thick veil of […]

It’s been almost a week since EgyptAir’s flight MS804 disappeared over the Mediterranean while enroute from Paris Charles de Gaulle International to Cairo, though numerous possibilities of why the Airbus A320 crashed still remain on the table. There’s conflicting information from varying sources regarding the ill-fated jet’s final moments, with little in the way of […]

FighterSweep Fans, as we’ve shared with you before, our CEO Brandon Webb is a Navy SEAL and avid pilot. He recently had a badass adventure flying a Japanese-built Fuji LM-2 through, of all places, the Bermuda Triangle. Despite my career in the Navy as a SEAL, I’ve always loved aviation. I think it started when […]

It appears as if no lessons were learned in the Hainan Island incident back in April of 2001. In that case, a US Navy EP-3 was intercepted by Chinese PLAN (People’s Liberation Army Navy) J-8’s. Allegedly one of the J-8’s was flying extremely dangerously and ended up colliding in midair with the EP-3. The J-8 […]

On the technology front, the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has designed a camera pod to carry on P-3’s and P-8’s that will provide video evidence of reckless intercepts by anybody who attempts them. We hear about the unsafe airmanship and dangerous maneuvers when they happen, but NRL is giving our maritime patrol aircraft the ability […]

FighterSweep Fans, here is an awesome story which caught our attention over the last few days comes from our good friends over at Joint Base Langley-Eustis (JBLE). Brothers flying during the same time period in any branch of service is fairly rare. What’s even more rare is to find those brothers flying the same aircraft–let […]