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Watch awesome chase plane footage of only the second flying B-29 Superfortress “Doc” over the skies of Kansas. “Doc” is a B-29 Superfortress that was brought back to life over a nearly 30 year period. In 1987, Tony Mazzolini, found Doc sitting in the Mojave Desert and launched a campaign to get the magnificent bomber flying again. “Doc” […]
Former F-16 pilot Nate “Buster” Jaros alerts us about a new fighter that is secretly being developed, but it appears to have lots of challenges. There is a new fighter under development. In fact very little is known about this new asset as most of what is happening has been done under cover, and withheld from the public […]
FighterSweep and Bremont are excited to announce a special edition F-14 Tomcat watch for solely for maintainers. Former maintainers order your bespoke Tomcat watch here. If you were one of the privileged individuals who left blood, sweat, and tears on the flight deck while working on the world’s most famous fighter, now is your chance to remember the F-14 […]
Former F-16 pilot Nate “Buster,” Jaros asks if the stealth and advanced technologies of the F-35 overshadow the need for nimble fighters. What he says might surprise you. Everyone knows that the F-4 Phantom was originally designed without a gun. At the time it entered service in the early 1960s, the Pentagon believed that the […]
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 optimizing […]
The aircraft carrier USS George Washington, USS Mesa Verde, an amphibious transport dock ship, and USNS Comfort, a hospital ship, are deployed from Norfolk, Virginia to assist in hurricane relief efforts. In response to the pending threat of Hurricane Matthew, the US Navy deployed the aircraft carrier USS George Washington from its home base in […]
Back in July, we told you about plans for North Korea’s first airshow. Now it’s time to report how the Wonsan Air Festival 2016 turned out! Kalma International Airport in Wonsan, North Korea was the scene of North Korea’s first international airshow, dubbed the Wonsan International Friendship Air Festival 2016. In an effort to promote […]
Nate “Buster” Jaros says China will have a fifth generation fighter, and its development of the J-20 (amongst other fifth gen platforms) is significant. If you haven’t been paying much attention to the jet fighter news lately, you may have missed something big. In fact, it doesn’t get a lot of press and over the past couple […]
The F-35 Integrated Test Force at Edwards AFB recently completed 25 missions with Block 3F software comprised of 12 weapons delivery accuracy (WDA’s) and 13 weapon separation tests. The F-35’s newest block 3F software seems to be performing well. The F-35 Integrated Test Force (ITF) was able to complete weapons testing using the new software and […]
Editor’s Note: We recently saw a story that portrayed the DoD’s cost per flight hour of military aircraft. So we asked our resident FighterSweep financial expert and former F/A-18 pilot Brett Odom and his team at Azimuth www.azimuth.solutions to give us the real cost breakdown. Unfortunately, he discovered some pretty sloppy DoD accounting. By Brett Odom The iron […]
On August 19, 1981, F-14A Tomcat Fast Eagle 102 from VF-41 “Black Aces” shot down one of two Libyan Su-22’s. For years it sat in disrepair until it was restored by the Navy Flight Deck Veteran’s Group this past month. Commemorative Air Force’s High Sky Wing, based in Midland, Texas unveiled Grumman F-14A Tomcat Bu.160403 this weekend at the […]
The F-35 still has a a long way to go according to a memo from the Defense Department Operational Test and Evaluation Directorate. Multiple problems and deficiencies still exist. Here we go again. Just when things were looking up for the maligned F-35, the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT & E) Head Michael […]
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