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Happy Sunday, oh FighterSweep Faithful! As you all have seen, we have given our good friends in Naval Aviation a healthy bit of air time with their fabulous Hornet Ball, Strike Fighter Ball, and cruise videos. Tonight we’re bringing you another cruise video, but from the perspective of VAQ-141. The “Shadowhawks,” stationed at NAS Atsugi, […]
Any mishap involving an airplane is bad, but there are some that are born in of the bowels of Murphy’s darkest, cruelest imaginations. This is certainly one of those, and truly a story for the ages. On 9 July 1991, the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln was at sea, transiting the Indian Ocean on its way to […]
Happy Sunday, FighterSweep Fans! Our celebration of Independence Day continues this afternoon as we go inside the cockpit with the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron. I remember seeing the Blue Angels for the first time when I was a young boy. One of the pilots of was a high school classmate of my father’s, which […]
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 […]
This Monday is the observance of Memorial Day. For those of us who served and those who have family who served, it is a day we set aside for the intended purpose: to pass some time in remembrance of the ones we knew and loved who perished while in service to their country. For me, […]
Naval Air Station Lemoore is going to grow even larger over the next few years, thanks to the F-35 training squadron moving in!
Two F/A-18A+ Hornets and their pilots are struck by lightning mid-flight. Can they recover their bearings and get back to base safely?
The Eagles of Strike Fighter Squadron 115 (VFA-115) have released the trailer to their 2014 WESTPAC cruise video, and what a stunner it is! Come along for the ride!
We take a look at the Grumman Avenger, the biggest single-engine aircraft to operate off the deck of a US aircraft carrier during World War II.
On April 1, 2001, a US Navy Lockheed EP-3E Aries II reconnaissance/signals intelligence (SIGINT) aircraft was operating about 70 miles from Hainan Island, off the Chinese mainland.
In the spirit of Throwback Thursday, we’re going to revisit one of the Navy’s recent retirees, the Grumman Iron Works EA-6B Prowler. Not long ago, we posted a photo gallery featuring the Prowler, one of the more venerable types ever to grace the decks of US Navy aircraft carriers in the last 40+ years. Although […]
A good buddy of mine and former squadron mate, Dave “Sex” Fravor, has one of the most bizarre aviation stories of all time. It is a story that stretches credibility, so I’ll start off by building up Dave’s bona fides. For what it’s worth, I know him personally — very well. We flew A-6s together for […]
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