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Happy Friday, FighterSweep Fans! In order for you to have a spectacular weekend, you need the proper sendoff. From our perspective, no Friday would be complete without the sky tearing open and your guts rattling around inside your body in the presence of the ever-glorious homage to Freedom’s Thunder! If there were ever an apt […]
BUR-NER…clap-clap…PHRI-DAY…clap-clap…BUR-NER…clap-clap…PHRI-DAY! Happy Burner Phriday, everyone! If you can imagine yourselves standing on Phlorida’s Space Coast during a lovely Phall afternoon, staring up at the sky and seeing one of the most iconic phighters in the history of ever, you’d be just as excited as we are. On the day in question, the U.S. Air Phorce’s […]
Ever picture yourself with courtside seats at an NBA game, sitting so close to the action that even you could block Kobe? Maybe sitting on the 50-yard line at your favorite NFL stadium? As awesome as that sounds (and I’d never turn down those courtside seats at a Spurs game…. that’s really kind of you […]
Editor’s Note: I’ve had the privilege of working with Mike before, photographing the Thunderbirds–but not at Daytona. He’s a solid guy, easy to work with, and a very gifted photographer. I remember a time where we were supposed to photograph 920th Rescue Wing HH-60s out of Patrick Air Force Base for the Cocoa Beach Air […]
Happy Friday, FighterSweep Fans! It is the time where we once again pay our weekly respects to the glory and magnificence of glowing, roaring, air-bending reheat. So this week’s offering comes to us courtesy of a Mighty Mighty from the California Air National Guard’s 144th Fighter Wing, based at Fresno, California. The 144th Fighter Wing’s […]
As much as we would love to say we took each of these images, we didn’t. All of these photos are courtesy of the Italian Air Force, or Aeronautica Militare. As we mentioned previously, the first Italian F-35A Lightning II, which also happens to be the first foreign-built F-35, arrived in the United States from Italy […]
One of the classiest designs ever to emerge out of the 1950s, the Northrop F-5 is an head-turning, eye-catching fighter. Not only a winner in the good looks department, the nimble, supersonic fighter was relatively cheap to obtain and operate. A host of nations agreed, with over 2600 of the type built during the 25-year […]
Happy Burner Friday to you all, FighterSweep Fans! Another glorious Friday is upon us, and since we’re out here at Nellis Air Force Base this week for Red Flag, we wanted to keep the chatter to a minimum whilst giving your eyes some Mach Diamonds, a little bit of reheat, and a healthy dose of […]
It’s hard to overstate the fine work that the USAF’s Dark Gray F-15E Strike Eagles and their crews undertake on a routine basis. The jet itself is a workhorse, and can carry just about any air-to-ground weapon in the inventory. Almost 100 of the type reside and operate under the command of the 4th Fighter Wing […]
Happy Friday, FighterSweep Fans! We hope you enjoy this tasty offering of soul-numbing, burner awesomeness, brought to you once again by the very talented Jonathan Derden Great Falls, Montana has a rich history with military aviation, originally becoming a hotbed of activity during the first years of World War II as American-made aircraft were sent […]
The Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF) is one of the many European operators of the versatile F-16 as the mainstay of its fighter/strike fleet. Out of an original order of 74 F-16s that rolled off the Fokker production line in the Netherlands, 57 remain in service, having undergone the Mid-Life Update (MLU) modifications. Instead of individual units owning […]
Happy Burner Friday, FighterSweep Fans! Today we have a little tribute to Brigadier General Robin Olds, courtesy of a QF-4E Phantom II, appropriately named after Olds’ SCAT XXVII. If as a pilot you ever find yourself in a quandary beyond your knowledge base, or even that of your peers, there is only one question you […]
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