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Throughout the history of airplanes designed specifically to hunt and kill other airplanes, there have been some truly awe-inspiring designs. I can’t speak for the rest of you, but since the first moment I saw the Lockheed-Martin F-22 Raptor, my heart–and my breath–was stolen in spectacular fashion. While I certainly mean no disrespect to the Mighty Mighty, the […]
Throughout the history of airplanes designed specifically to hunt and kill other airplanes, there have been some truly awe-inspiring designs. I can’t speak for the rest of you, but since the first moment I saw the Lockheed-Martin F-22 Raptor, my heart–and my breath–was stolen in spectacular fashion. While I certainly mean no disrespect to the Mighty Mighty, the […]
Happy Monday to you all, FighterSweep Fans! We wanted to start our work week off on a bit of a different note, so here we go with a little experiment. As you know, one of our contributors–in addition to being a fighter pilot, police officer, and Krav Maga instructor–is a published fiction author. C.W. Lemoine […]
Happy Monday to you all, FighterSweep Fans! We wanted to start our work week off on a bit of a different note, so here we go with a little experiment. As you know, one of our contributors–in addition to being a fighter pilot, police officer, and Krav Maga instructor–is a published fiction author. C.W. Lemoine […]
Happy Saturday, FighterSweep Fans!! We trust you’re having a great weekend thus far, and in the event you weren’t, we have just what the doctor ordered: keeping time with the Lone Star Gunfighters and viewing the world from the cockpit of the mighty F-16C Fighting Falcon. The Texas Air National Guard’s 149th Fighter Wing is stationed […]
Happy Saturday, FighterSweep Fans!! We trust you’re having a great weekend thus far, and in the event you weren’t, we have just what the doctor ordered: keeping time with the Lone Star Gunfighters and viewing the world from the cockpit of the mighty F-16C Fighting Falcon. The Texas Air National Guard’s 149th Fighter Wing is stationed […]
Happy Thursday, FighterSweep Fans! On this day in 1993, Northrop-Grumman delivered the very first “Stealth Bomber,” the Spirit of Missouri, to Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. Any B-2A Spirit lovers out there? The original ATB or “Advanced Technology Bomber” program came to life when Jimmy Carter was President. The goal was to build and […]
Happy Thursday, FighterSweep Fans! On this day in 1993, Northrop-Grumman delivered the very first “Stealth Bomber,” the Spirit of Missouri, to Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. Any B-2A Spirit lovers out there? The original ATB or “Advanced Technology Bomber” program came to life when Jimmy Carter was President. The goal was to build and […]
On this day in 1986, at McDonnell Douglas’ production facility at Lambert Field in Saint Louis, Missouri, history was made when the very first F-15E Strike Eagle took to the sky. In the late 1970s, not long after the Light Gray F-15 established itself as a dominant force in the air superiority arena, McDonnell Douglas began […]
On this day in 1986, at McDonnell Douglas’ production facility at Lambert Field in Saint Louis, Missouri, history was made when the very first F-15E Strike Eagle took to the sky. In the late 1970s, not long after the Light Gray F-15 established itself as a dominant force in the air superiority arena, McDonnell Douglas began […]
Sixty-nine years ago today, the National Guard Bureau handed down the charter formally recognizing the 157th Fighter Squadron as a unit of the South Carolina Air National Guard. The Swamp Fox was born. From the beginning, the 157FS was based at Congaree Air Station east of Columbia, a Joint National Guard base now named McEntire […]
Sixty-nine years ago today, the National Guard Bureau handed down the charter formally recognizing the 157th Fighter Squadron as a unit of the South Carolina Air National Guard. The Swamp Fox was born. From the beginning, the 157FS was based at Congaree Air Station east of Columbia, a Joint National Guard base now named McEntire […]
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