Jet Fridays!
We love fighter jets. In fact, we support jet aircraft like the F-16 Fighting Falcon and the F-5 Tiger II. We also love Fridays. Combine those two together and you have this collection of fun facts and interesting stories about fighter jets and jet engines. Enjoy our Jet Friday posts below.
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Jet Friday: The PHantastically PHast F-4 PHantom!
Click for Video - As a U.S. pilot in Vietnam, when you needed to intercept an enemy aircraft, you wanted the fastest fighter you could fly to close the gap quickly. The F-4 Phantom II, a two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet, fit that need...
Jet Friday: How Does a Jet Fly?
Click for Video An F-5 Tiger II taxies to the starting point of a runway preparing to take-off. The pilot walks through his final checklist and runs the engine up to full power to check for engine-related problems. He releases the brake and rumbles down the long...
Jet Friday: This Guy is Crazy (and smart) Enough to Build a Jet Bicycle
Click for Video Have you ever walked out to your garage, looked at that old rusty bike leaning against the wall, and thought to yourself, “that thing needs to be rocket propelled.” You too? Well, meet the other guy in this world who thought the same...and then went...
Jet Friday: Why Are Airplane Engines So Big?
Click for Video The bigger the jet engine, the more efficient it is...to a point. Eventually, the larger the engine, the more drag it produces, offsetting the efficiency of the engine’s thrust. In this video, Henry Reich illustrates the thrust of pure jet engines like...
Jet Friday: From the Cockpit View, Name the Aircraft
Click for Video Can you identify the aircraft in this video? Is the first one an F-15 Eagle? It is hard to tell unless you are familiar with the cockpit. The jet screams across the desert just above the deck, weaving through canyons of tall rock. Finally, at the end...
Jet Friday: Not a Jet, But This Pilot Still Experiences High Gs
Click for Video Though the Sukhoi Su-26 is not a jet, but rather a single-seater aerobatics plane powered by a single radial reciprocating engine, the cockpit view of this pilot pushing the nimble aircraft to its limits is very entertaining. It's a great chance to see...
Jet Friday: How Does the AV-8B Harrier Get Its Lift?
Click for Video Introduced in 1985 and still currently in service, the AV-8B Harrier II is a single-engine aircraft that specializes in ground attack. This bird of prey’s multi-role mission is light attack for close-air-support for ground troops as well as air...
Jet Friday: 9 Trigger Pulls of BRRRRRRRRRT
Click for Video The U.S. Air Force’s A-10 Warthog, officially called the Thunderbolt II, can carry a payload of rockets, missiles and bombs, but this fighter jet is basically a flying 30mm Gatling cannon. One of the most effective close-air-support platforms in the...
Jet Friday: Video of Extreme Low Flying of F-5 Tiger II Over Norway
Click for Video -This video was filmed in a F-5 Tiger II as it flew low and quick through the mountains and canyons in Norway. In the beginning, the film features the F-5A, a single-seat aircraft of the Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF). But during the flight, the...
Jet Friday: Fight Fire Like a Superhero!
1 Russian tank + 2 MiG-21 jet turbines = 1 big, bad fire extinguisher Click for Video - How hard is it to extinguish an oil well fire? Difficult enough that engineers need to think way outside the box and design a tool called the “Big Wind.” This monstrous fire...
Jet Friday: F-86 Sabre – Dogfight over Korea
Click for Video - Today we take a look at the United States’ first swept-wing fighter, the North American F-86 Sabre. When America entered the Korean War, air superiority was shortly held by Air Force F-80s and F-84s. However, in 1950, novice Chinese pilots and a few...
Jet Friday: The Last Gunfighter!
Click for Video - The Vought F-8 Crusader, the Navy and Marine Corps premier air superiority aircraft of its time, was known by several names. “The Last Gunfighter” was the F-8’s more widely accepted title. Its primary weapons were four 20 mm Colt Mk 12 Cannons, but...
Jet Friday: Brits Beat the Yanks to Landing a Jet on Aircraft Carrier
Following World War 2, jet aircraft technology continued to advance quickly. However, the age of jet propulsion aircraft was very much still in its infancy. Daring pilots pushed the envelope to test the limitations of the jet, jumping at any chance to become the first...
Jet Friday: Me-262 – There Has To Be a First
In today’s Jet Friday, we go back to the beginning, when aerial warfighting made the leap from piston-engine aircraft to jet engines. During World War 2, Nazi Germany flew the first operational fighter jet, the Messerschmitt ME 262. The Messerschmitt was introduced in...
Black(bird) Friday…the SR-71 Blackbird Has Jet Friday Going Mach 3!
Hopefully, this finds you have survived all that turkey, and enjoyed some great football games. Now, it’s Black Friday and we are here to help you get through it. Remember, it’s still Jet Friday. So today we will learn a little bit about the SR-71 Blackbird. This...
Jet Friday: a Bomber Deploying a “Parasite Fighter” Jet?
Click for Video - During the cold war, many countries, including the U.S., experimented with small fighter aircraft that could be deployed from large bomber aircraft to offer those bombers protection during long range missions. The need for such aircraft was based on...
Jet Friday: Carrier Pilots Takeoff and Land
This week we go to sea and take part in carrier operations with the U.S. Navy and Marines. With F-18s being catapulted into the sky and Harrier Jump Jets performing vertical landings, this video will get your Friday started off right. Now it’s time to go full power,...
Jet Friday: How Does a Jet Engine Work? There’s an Animagraff For That.
When it comes to raw power, nothing is quite like a jet engine. Wouldn't it be exciting if you had access to an infographic about how a jet engine works? How about a video instead? Well, if you merge both image and video you get animated graphics. That is exactly what...
Jet Friday: Hornet Ball? Jets! Jets! Jets! The F-18 Kind…
Each year the U.S. Navy’s West Coast F-18 Hornet and Super Hornets squadrons put together a compilation of their flight activities during their year’s combat and training missions. This year’s video is crammed full of carrier operations, mock air-to-air combat,...
Jet Friday: The Top Ten Fighters: 1985
Nearly everyone enjoys jet aircraft. Most everyone enjoys Fridays. Therefore, we thought it would be great to combine both and start “Jet Friday”, where every Friday we share with you something we find really awesome on the Internet about jet aircraft. To kick off...
5 Fast Facts of the F-16 Fighting Falcon
The F-16 Fighting Falcon is now over 40 years old. More than 4500 have been produced and customers continue to place orders for additional units. It has been featured in movies like Iron Eagle (1986), and The Sum of All Fears (2002). Seeing the F-16 flash across the...