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Just before 4PM on Monday afternoon, a US Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet from Naval Air Station Lemoore crashed just a few miles south of the base. Fortunately, the pilot was able to eject safely and is in good condition, according to the base commander Captain Monty Ashliman. Monday’s weather at Lemoore was reportedly mostly cloudy […]
We all love to celebrate various milestones occurring along mankind’s endless journey into, and even beyond the earth’s atmosphere. For the most part we like to commemorate our successes, the times we somehow got it all right and miraculously bested gravity for a time. But sometimes we need to stop and remember what it took […]
Happy Sunday, FighterSweep Fans! Today we are very fortunate to bring you a very special presentation, one that has been in the works for some time and we feel is finally ready to share with all of you! We have talked a lot about deployments, TSPs, and the various challenges of getting warfighters both downrange […]
Happy Friday, FighterSweep Fans! Today we are celebrating the creation of the United States Air Force, sixty-eight years ago today when President Truman signed the National Security Act and established a new defense organization independent of its previous life as part of the Army. As you read these words, airmen all over the globe are […]
Happy Wednesday, FighterSweep Fans! We’re halfway through the week and have some great stuff in store for you over the next few days, but we wanted to put this one up as a great conversation starter. Throughout history, there has been much debate over which airframes can lay a claim to the title “one of […]
Good Morning, FighterSweep Fans! Today we’re excited because we get to share with you something that (to our knowledge) hasn’t been done before in a U.S. fighter. We go inside the cockpit with a good friend of ours–one who shall remain nameless and blameless–as he negotiates the Sidewinder Military Training Route through the airspace of […]
Good evening, FighterSweep Fans! We hope you’ve had a great start to your work-week, and what would a Monday be without sharing a significant milestone in the aviation world. Once again we are celebrating everything great about the Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker–the backbone of our nation’s air-to-air refueling capability. On this day 59 years ago, the […]
I cannot be any more emphatic, FighterSweep Fans: if you call yourself an aviation enthusiast, this is nearly fifteen minutes of video you’re going to want to watch–especially if you love the Spitfire as much as we do. If you don’t, I figure there’s probably something wrong with you! I love studying military aviation history […]
Happy Friday, everyone! In lieu of Burner Friday this week, we wanted to take you inside the cockpit of the supremely agile and capable Eurofighter Typhoon. Flown out of RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, a pair of Typhoons from 29 Squadron–one of which flown by the RAF’s Typhoon Demonstration Pilot–take to the sky, flying a low-level […]
It’s Milestone Monday, FighterSweep Fans! Today we recall 17 August 1978, the day the world was first introduced to the General Dynamics (now Lockheed-Martin) F-16 Fighting Falcon. The popular nickname for the F-16–the Viper—is rumored to have come about because of the aircraft’s resemblance to spaceships flown on a popular science-fiction television series in the […]
Happy Monday, FighterSweep Fans! As we’ve been sharing with you for the past week, we were honored to participate in Exercise Sentry Eagle 2015, hosted by the Oregon Air National Guard’s 173rd Fighter Wing, based at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Over forty-five aircraft from nine different commands flew, with more than four hundred […]
A very Happy Sunday to you, FighterSweep Fans! We hope you’ve had a great weekend thus far. We’ve been enjoying some much-needed down time, as we’ve all been traveling and generating content for your viewing pleasure! Today we bring you a special video treat, taking you inside the cockpit with our good friends at the […]
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