The 1950s and 1960s were a busy time for U.S. fighter jet development. Aircraft like the P-80 Shooting Star, introduced in 1945, brought America into the jet age. The war in Korea demanded even quicker, more agile fighters to stem the heavy U.S. losses of P-80s to...
In 1986, we had TOPGUN the movie, an action drama about Naval aviators attending the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program commonly referred to as TOPGUN. In it, the star Maverick, played by Tom Cruise, explains to an astrophysicist civilian...
The F-4 Phantom and MiG-25 Foxbat were both fast and powerful fighter aircraft. Between the two, they held many world speed records for time to climb (time-to-altitude), meaning the time it takes to fly from the earth’s surface to certain known altitudes. One of those...
The F-15 Eagle is a dominant air-to-air platform. This all-weather tactical fighter was introduced into service in July 1972. The primary user for the highly maneuverable twin-engine jet is the United States Air Force, but it has also been exported to Japan, Saudi...
“It’s not a contest or a competition. There are no winners or losers. It’s about training and saving lives.” ~ Narrator, Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag Above a 12,700 square mile area of desert in Nevada, F-15 Eagles from the United States Air Force, Eurofighter...
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