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FighterSweep Fans, we can only imagine what it was like being inside the Cessna 208 when it came down out of the sky near Lodi, California in this incident. The pilot and seventeen skydivers were aboard when the aircraft experienced engine trouble and made an emergency landing in a vineyard. Once on the ground, the […]

FighterSweep Fans, we have breaking news out of the Atlanta, where the Good Neighbor Day Open House Air Show was being held. Earlier this afternoon, at Dekalb Peachtree Airport, one of the performers in the show crashed his biplane. The pilot was killed Saturday afternoon when a biplane crashed during an air show at a […]

FighterSweep Fans, in a surprising–yet not so surprising–move, Arizona Senator John McCain is looking to eliminate the F-35 JPO, or Joint Program Office. From his perspective, the effort to develop the Joint Strike Fighter across three services has failed. The move would devolve the program to the individual services, placing the responsibility for each variant […]

FighterSweep Fans, remember that bit we ran about the Marine Corps scrounging for parts at a museum? Well, it should come as no surprise the Marine Corps isn’t the only service resorting to drastic measures to keep its aging fleet of combat aircraft flying. Anyone out there familiar with AMARG? The Boneyard in the Arizona […]

The K-MAX helicopter, which can fly with or without a pilot and has already proven its worth in Afghanistan, has now taken up residence in Yuma, Arizona. While overseas, the K-MAX was able to keep multiple convoys off of the road, while lifting nearly five million pounds in total. No convoys on roads equals no […]

Happy Friday, FighterSweep Fans! Hard to believe we’re halfway through May already, but I guess time flies when you’re having fun, right? We’ve had a lot going on as you’ve seen, and more awesome things are in store in the coming couple of weeks. But for now, what sort of friends would we be if […]

Erik Prince. For a lot of folks, the mere mention of his name is guaranteed to evoke a visceral reaction. A philanthropist, businessman, and former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, Prince is best known as the founder of the private security company formerly known as Blackwater USA.  has branched out in a different direction. As the […]

FighterSweep Fans, today marks a significant milestone in modern military aviation history. It’s not because someone did something exceptionally cool somewhere with an airplane. It is actually because a pretty remarkable movie made its debut on the silver screen. I can’t even count the number of friends who got their aviation careers started because, thirty […]

FighterSweep Fans, the Oregon Air National Guard’s 173rd Fighter Wing has successfully arrived in Finland and has set up shop. The pilots from the Land of No Slack have conducted their Local Area Orientation flights and are starting to fly with the Finnish Air Force’s F/A-18 Hornets. Thanks to Finnish Combat Camera, we’re getting a […]

Word on the street is the Royal Navy could be adding nine brand-spanking-new P-8’s to its inventory in the very near future. This is most likely very exciting news for most, if not all, of the military supporters on the other side of the pond. More specifically, our UK counterparts have seen their military air […]

FighterSweep Fans, in the event you needed a bit more awesome in your week, look no further. We’ve discussed the concept and execution of the “Elephant Walk” in the past, but today’s iteration at Osan Air Base in the Republic of Korea was pretty special as it included not only our friends from the “Fiends” […]

FighterSweep Fans, we have good news coming out of the F-35  Joint Program Office. Despite what a lot of critics say, the pilots and maintainers of the JSF are actually very pleased with the aircraft’s performance and reliability so far. For example, earlier this year, the first combat-coded F-35s at Hill Air Force Base in […]