Category: Aviation

Will the very specialized and sleek millennial or the well-rounded Gen Z celebrity kid come out on top in this F-22 vs F-35 fight?

Paul Tibbets recalled, “We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud… boiling up, mushrooming, terrible.”

C.W. Lemoine has overcome a lot of adversity in his career flying fighters, and his story is best summed up by this: “Make them tell you no!”

From Vietnam to Afghanistan, CH-46 Sea Knights, affectionately known as “Phrogs,” have been evacuating embassies. But they will never fly again.

It may be 70 years old, but the B-52 Stratofortress can blow up anything from a bunker to a city and will be doing so for many years to come.

The extremely versatile C-130 plane has been serving the U.S. for nearly 70 years and still going strong proving that looks don’t matter.

The Mcdonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and its variants have served as America’s workhorse interceptor fighters for over 40 years.

A fake airliner, a Czech Frankenstein monster version of the Nazis’ Me 109, and a handful of maverick pilots wrote one of history’s unlikeliest pages.

Worthy of all the memes, the GAU-8 Avenger 30mm cannon is a deadly weapon of destruction that makes the A-10 a shark in the skies.

The F-86 Sabre marks a very important transition stage in U.S. aircraft development. As such, it has rightfully earned its place in history.

You could easily make a list of amazing facts about the SR-71, but here are three facts about it that even a few aviation nerds may not know.

What do you do if your airbase is compromised? You just land on a highway, of course.