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Duotech Video PostsJet Friday – F-15 Eagle Pilot Landing On One Wing
The F-15 Eagle is a large, highly capable beast of a fighter aircraft. Normally piloted by a single crew member, on a training mission in 1983, one two-seat trainer would be tested under some incredible flying circumstances. F-15 Eagle - a rocket with wings The F-15...
Jet Friday: How Producers Got Maverick’s Realistic Flying Footage
After 34 years, Top Gun is returning to the big screen. Things have changed quite a bit since Maverick was being launched off the USS Enterprise in his F-14 Tomcat. Instead of the Enterprise, this time the aircraft carrier is the USS Abraham Lincoln. When he returns...
Operation Christmas Drop – the USAF Spreading Joy Across the Pacific
In the Christmas season of 1952 during a routine weather reconnaissance mission, a US Air Force aircrew flying out of Anderson Air Force Base in Guam started a tradition that is still going to this day. In fact, the decision the airmen made that day, some 3,500 miles...
Jet Friday – The Caspian Sea Monster
It was the mid-1960s and the United States and Russia were both embroiled in Cold War secrets. When it came to winning a potential war, both countries were determined to find new ways to stay ahead of the other in technology and weapons. Each was determined to know...
Army-Navy Game and Those Spirit Videos
We have covered nine of the traditions of the historic Army-Navy Game in our post, Army-Navy Game Traditions; Prisoner Exchanges and Singing Second. We have also shared images and explained the reasons behind the uniform selections for both sides over the recent years...
QF-16 Drone; from the Hunters to the Hunted
For more than 40 years, the F-16 Fighting Falcon, also known as the Viper, has been a dominate multi-role fighter aircraft around the globe. Its place is cemented in history as one of the most popular and effective fighter aircraft ever produced. The Hunters - Since...
Jet Friday: The Black Eagles Aerobatic Team of South Korea
We have previously showcased the U.S. Navy Blue Angels’ flight demonstration team that flies the F-18 Hornet. We have also provided you with articles about the Thunderbirds, the U.S. Air Force aerobatic team who fly the F-16 Viper. These teams are great recruiting...
Jet Friday – Unauthorized Photo Session Kills Pilots, Destroys Experimental Aircraft
The XB-70 Valkyrie was the largest and fastest strategic bomber the United States ever built. It was designed to exceed Mach 3, or over 2301 mph, and had a service ceiling over 77,000 feet. It performed these speeds and reached these altitudes using six General...
Bubble Bath for an F-35 Lightning II
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...
160th SOAR in the Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Raid
We recently learned the news about the mission to capture the leader of ISIS, Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi, during Operation Kayla Mueller. The Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) units performing the mission launched from Iraq and traveled hundreds of miles across Syria....
The Vietnam Pilot Who Earned the MOH in a THUD
The F-105 Thunderchief project began in 1951 and was introduced into service in 1958 as a replacement for the F-84F Thunderstreak fighter-bomber. The single-seat Thunderchief was a fighter-bomber capable of near Mach 2 and originally developed to be a nuclear attack...
The First Flight That Technically Wasn’t
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...