by Lee Cloer | Nov 6, 2019 | General Interest, Video
How do you celebrate your country’s first permanently stationed F-35A Lightning II? The Netherlands did it with a bubble bath. To be clear, the Royal Netherlands Air Force did not do this intentionally. The Dutch are expecting to replace their fleet of F-16 Fighting...
by Lee Cloer | Oct 11, 2019 | General Interest, Jet Fridays, Video |
As popular an aircraft as the F-16 Fighting Falcon (Viper) is, it was not warmly welcomed when it was in development. Those against this small single-engine air superiority fighter were concerned it would be a threat to its larger big brother, the F-15 Eagle, a...
by Lee Cloer | Sep 26, 2019 | General Interest |
The 1980s aviation world experienced fewer hijackings than the 70s. The actions taken by the International Civil Aviation Organization that required all passengers to pass through metal detectors reduced the number of occurrences in the 80s. As aviation events go, the...
by Lee Cloer | Sep 23, 2019 | General Interest, Jet Fridays |
The United States Air Force has some very powerful fighter aircraft in its arsenal. From the supersonic light fighter 3rd generation F-5 Tiger II that was introduced into service in 1962 to currently the only active 5th generation stealth aircraft, the F-22, and F-35....
by Lee Cloer | Apr 30, 2019 | General Interest |
Fighter aircraft are segmented into generations. Generations are established based innovations that these aircraft went through from decade to decade. The fighter aircraft of the 1960s and 70s are considered to be third generation aircraft and include the first...