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Welcome to the Independence Day edition of Burner Friday, FighterSweep Fans! We wanted to send you into your holiday weekend with an image that embodies everything that is awesome about fighter aviation and America. There is so much history and significance in this particular image, brought to you courtesy of the Massachusetts Air National Guard. […]
[Editor’s Note–Yesterday, C.W. Lemoine a Naval Reserve F/A-18 pilot and prior AFRES Viper Driver, opined about several articles tied to this report. Most the pieces launched onto the Interwebs were designed specifically to raise hackles and blood pressure, and boy did they ever succeed! Here at FighterSweep, we do our best to present factual information […]
A little over a week and a half ago, Lockheed-Martin’s F-35 Lightning II reached another milestone. With BAE Systems test pilot Pete Wilson at the controls, F-35B test vehicle BF-04 successfully made it’s first ski-jump takeoff at NAS Patuxtent River, Maryland. A test ramp has been constructed at Pax River for this and subsequent tests […]
As one of our followers here on FighterSweep, you’re probably someone that likes to keep track of the latest news on America’s most advanced fighters–especially the stealthy, badass fifth-generation F-22 and F-35. More specifically, you’ve probably been keeping tabs on the development of the F-35–its setbacks, its achievements, and its march toward IOC. That also […]
Happy Tanker Tuesday, FighterSweep Fans! As a follow-up to yesterday‘s aerial tour of the Hindu Kush mountains in Nuristan Province, we have a short, homegrown clip of a couple Boeing F-15Es rejoining with a KC-135 Stratotanker for gas over Afghanistan. With its conformal fuel tanks and two “bags” (wing tanks), the Dark Gray can carry […]
From the annals of Baltic Air Policing–otherwise known as “Who intercepted the Russians today?!” files, the latest installment comes from Finland. This past Friday, a pair of Finnish Air Force F/A-18C Hornets were scrambled to intercept a Russian Air Force Ilyushin IL-76. The cargo aircraft allegedly violated Finnish airspace near the southern coastal town of […]
Barg-i Matal. It’s one of the most rugged, treacherous, and vertical districts in northeastern Afghanistan, largely walled off from the outside world by the Hindu Kush mountains. Very, very few people live there, which makes one wonder how it was also the site for some of the most ferocious battles for the U.S. Army’s 10th […]
Happy Sunday to you all, FighterSweep Fans! On this beautiful afternoon, we bring you another tasty treat from the vault of U.S. Navy awesome, courtesy of the “Blue Blasters” of VFA-34. Stationed at NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the Blue Blasters are assigned to Carrier Air Wing 2. They are equipped with the McDonnell […]
One of the longest-standing questions I’ve been asked about the F-22A Raptor is this: “why is there no helmet-mounted display for the pilot? All the other jets have them, so why not the F-22?” I have heard a few reasons, and most have to do with the period of time when the Raptor was designed. […]
What would Friday be without a healthy dose of afterburner, right?! In celebration of Class 15-Alpha graduating from the United States Air Force Weapons School this week, our installment of the ever-popular Burner Friday features a McDonnell Douglas (Boeing) F-15D Eagle from the 433rd Weapons Squadron, powered by a pair of Pratt & Whitney F-100-PW-220 […]
Overnight, a Lockheed-Martin F-16C Fighting Falcon assigned to the Arizona Air National Guard’s 162nd Fighter Wing crashed during a training mission. The incident occurred at approximately 8PM local time, with the aircraft coming down approximately five miles east of the Douglas Municipal Airport, approximately one hundred twenty miles from the 162nd’s base at Tucson International […]
To fly or not to fly, that is the question. It sounds like an old cliché, but the risks of becoming complacent in the cockpit as pilots are both real and extremely dangerous. As general aviation pilots we are asked, why do we fly? More than likely the answer is because we love it! From […]
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