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Why The Legacy Of Robin Olds Lives On In Today’s Fighter Pilots
For many, the mustachioed, swashbuckling figure of Brig. Gen. Robin Olds remains the epitome of the Air Force fighter pilot. A triple ace from his aerial combat in World War II and Vietnam, Olds was a...
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First Woman Blue Angels Jet Demonstration Pilot Selected (Updated)
For the first time in its 76-year history, the Navy’s Blue Angels will have a woman flying as part of its core six-ship jet demonstration team. A woman pilot has been selected to join that team in...
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Meet Lt. Amanda “Stalin” Lee, First Woman Blue Angels Jet Demo Pilot
U.S. Navy Lt. Amanda Lee, who goes by the callsign “Stalin,” has been selected to become the first woman to join the famed Blue Angels as a pilot on its core six-ship jet demonstration team. The War...
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Veteran Air Traffic Controller On Dealing With Stranger Things In The Sky
“Makes you feel like they are just keeping things from you.” That’s how Colin Scoggins describes the U.S. military’s response to a potential unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) sighting during his...
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Meticulously Planned Logistics Operation Underway To Celebrate Queen’s Life
The death of Queen Elizabeth II, the only ruling monarch most of her subjects have ever known, kicks off a solemn spectacle of remembrance and celebration unlike that for any other world leader,...
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‘Death Gun Salutes’ Honoring Queen Elizabeth II Thunder Around Globe
The thundering sound of artillery fire rocked London, across Great Britain and around the world today as part of a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday at Balmoral Castle in Scotland....
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The Beach Bum Has Flown West: Jimmy Buffett’s Legacy In The Sky
Although best known for his flip-flop style, lots of margaritas, and decades of legendary music with his Coral Reefer Band, Jimmy Buffett loved to fly. Buffett, who died Friday at 76, had a fleet of...
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The Nuclear Scientist And The Warplane That Became Britain’s Most Unlikely...
Matt Damon announces to the crowd, “We have an early Christmas present for you.” Kenneth Branagh takes over, holding court with an adoring audience. Playing General Leslie Groves, director of the...
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F-5 Pilot’s Early Struggles Aerial Refueling The Underpowered Jet
I cursed into my oxygen mask, as my little fighter wallowed in the thin air above 20,000 feet, dropping inexorably behind the Boeing 707 tanker. The day before, the same jet had felt very responsive –...
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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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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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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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