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X-32’s Makeover: Before And After
The National Museum of the United States Air Force (NMUSAF) has just completed its full restoration of the Boeing X-32A, the loser to Lockheed’s X-35 in the Joint Strike Fighter competition nearly two...
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NASA’s Quiet Short Takeoff And Landing Test Jet Is Up For Sale
It’s not every day that a unique piece of aerospace test history comes up for sale, but members of the public now have the chance to bid for just such an item: the one-off de Havilland Canada Buffalo...
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Military Flight Instructor’s Most Important Lesson: Student Pilots Will Try...
You gotta be shitting me (YGBSM) – no student would ever do that?! At about 2,500 feet above ground, upside down, with the speed decaying below 100 knots (kts), the stick started to shake as our...
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Flying The Block 70 F-16 ‘Ultimate’ Viper According To Its Test Pilot
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the maiden flight of the F-16 Fighting Falcon, which occurred on January 20, 1974. The 50 years of F-16 operations that...
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Masters Of The Air’s Aerial Sequences Are Terrifying, Game Changing
This is not your standard review. It focuses on a type of action that Hollywood gets wrong far more than it gets right — aviation sequences, and especially those having to do with air combat. After...
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This Is What It Took To Defend A B-17 Bomber
With the first episodes of Masters Of The Air having received considerable praise for their air combat sequences especially, the story of the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) in World War II is very much...
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Hornet Pilot’s Cold War Mission Left Him In The “Buffer Zone” Between East...
“Okay guys, listen up. You have 30 minutes till you walk out the door. Here’s the mission scenario.” Tom Sweeney, our Tactical Evaluator, set down the mission folder on the planning table in the...
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Tornado Ravages Air Force Museum Restoration Hangar At Wright Patterson AFB
A tornado caused major damage to parts of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, today, including to the National Museum of the Air Force, which is located at the base. Wright-Patterson AFB...
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The F-111 Was Faster Than You Think
A story that we recently published about the true top speed of the F-15EX Eagle II caught a good deal of attention. Most intriguingly, one U.S. Air Force veteran got in touch with The War Zone to...
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F-5 Pilot’s Double Engine Flameout While Refueling Over The Atlantic
“Echo Four, cleared wet contact right hose,” crackled the radio in Paul’s helmet. He gripped the controls on his CF-5A Freedom Fighter a little more tightly, focusing on the steel basket that would...
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