Fightersweep

The fighter squadron bar is a place of fun and jest, of solace and reflection, and also a place to soothe the daily reminders of how real the job can be. Fighter pilots are born in the fighter squadron bar. Emerging into the world of tactical aviation, in the bar is where the combat fighter pilot […]

Former F-16 fighter pilot Nate “Buster” Jaros takes us along for a ride in the Centrifuge and tells us what it is like to feel 9G’s crushing your body. You are basically put into a small coffin. It swings a little as you enter, reminiscent of how a gondola swings on its wire, or how […]

The United States doesn’t just possess the largest and most powerful air force on the planet — it actually has three of them. The Air Force, Navy, and Army each boast enough airborne assets to claim each of the top three spots on the podium of global air superiority respectively; but despite America’s dominance in […]

We all fly commercial thinking everything is fine. No worries because there are professional pilots in the cockpit that prepared well for the flight, right? This short video of actual pilot radio transmissions with air traffic control may have you thinking twice next time you fly. Hmmm…  

The recent revelation that the United States military had funneled some $22 million out of the Pentagon’s black budget to investigate reports of Unidentified Flying Objects was met with a variety of responses in the media, and from the public at large. Some saw the investigation as a waste of money, others called it confirmation […]

Former F-16 pilot Nate “Buster” Jaros shows us how Angle of Attack (AOA) is extremely important in basic fighter manuevers and how optimizing it can help kill the enemy. Angle of attack (AOA) is an important tool for the combat fighter pilot. Understanding how it works and what it provides is key to predicting and […]

The International Space Station has been in orbit around our planet since 1998, providing the human race with a (semi) permanent habitable space at the front door of the great beyond. That timeline offers an interesting bit of perspective — as you come to realize that America’s latest generation of enlisted warfighters, joining the service […]

When it comes to fighter jets, the modern world is currently amid a transition. The combat-proven fighters we’ve grown to know and love over the years are reaching the ends of their operational lifespans, and while update programs are underway for many of them, technological strides made in the years since these platforms first took […]

“After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden and drank thea, under the shade of some apple trees…he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind. It was occasion’d by the fall of an apple, as he sat in contemplative […]

In July of 1947, something fell from the sky and crash landed in Mack Brazel’s ranch, just northwest of Roswell, New Mexico. According to the official story, it was an experimental weather balloon. If you listen to the long list of conspiracy theories surrounding the event, it was a spaceship from another world, crewed by […]

Ever since flying machines began taking to the skies there have been instances of an airship or aircraft disappearing, sometimes with little or no trace, making it very difficult for investigators to ascertain exactly what happened. Over the years flying has become considerably less risky and the odds of vanishing in an aircraft became increasingly […]

In telling the stories of war, we have a natural inclination to focus on the action, the drama of the front lines. Heroes, villains, and violence unlike most people have ever seen has a unique way of grabbing at the human attention span, luring us in with via own aspirations of heroism, or our own […]