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Terror in The Sky: The Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters of WWII...
The opening of the air war over the Pacific was brutal. Allied pilots found themselves facing an enemy whose fighters appeared to be able to run rings around their own. The most notable of these ...
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The F-5A Freedom Fighter: When Simplicity Met Lethality
The F-5A was a testament to what happens when a defense contractor actually tries to restrain its impulses and focus on making an affordable craft.
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The F-111 Aardvark Was a “Bomb Truck” in the Skies
The F-111 Aardvark’s fuselage could lug bomb loads up to 31,000 pounds and fuel for missions up to 2,500 miles long. When the ...
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The PZL-230 Skorpion was the Soviet Response to the A-10 Warthog
It should come as no surprise that the Eastern Bloc powers came up with their own aerial counterparts to the A-10. Though the Republic Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II, far better known by its unofficial ...
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Thunder in the Heavens: A Brief History of the Aircraft of the USAF Thunderbirds
Entertaining crowds since 1953, the United States Air Force Thunderbirds are one of the world’s best known aerial demonstrations teams, dazzling ...