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When an ejection seat may represent a crew member’s last chance to survive, there can be no compromise. Ejection seats are placed into the cockpit and usually attach to rails via a set of rollers on ...

The A-10 Warthog is the world’s premier close air support (CAS) aircraft, despite the jet having been in service for almost 40 years. Originally designed to thwart the flow of Soviet main battle tanks ...

The Su-27 did gain special markings – one of the five ‘kill’ stars painted on the port side of the nose was superimposed on the silhouette of a P-3! The Sukhoi Design Bureau was tasked in 1969 with ...

Brig. Gen. (res.) Giora Epstein, a decorated Israeli fighter pilot who holds the world record for most aerial kills in the jet era, died on Jul. 19, 2025 at age 87, Ynetnews reports. Giora ...

Bruce Carr ended World War II as a lieutenant with 14 victories confirmed and the Distinguished Service Cross. Despite all that, he denies any claim to heroism–a doubtful assertion–but he can’t ...

On May 17, 1987, the guided missile frigate USS Stark was hit by a pair of French Made Exocet Missiles fired from a French made Dassault 50 Business jet (code-named Suzanna) modified with the nose ...

The flight of three F-4 Phantom II fighter jets and the tanker continued banking around the storms while refueling when suddenly the Tanker flew them directly into a heavy storm cell. You can listen ...

Throughout its nearly 24-year career, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3-strategic reconnaissance aircraft remained the world’s fastest and highest-flying operational aircraft. From 80,000 feet, it ...

Nicknamed “The Bone,” the B-1B Lancer is a long-range, multi-mission, supersonic conventional bomber, which has served the United States Air Force since 1985. The aircraft is on track to continue ...

The configuration of the Sukhoi Su-57 Felon is an evolution of the Su-27’s shape adapted for the requirements of low visibility and supersonic speed and agility. As explained by Piotr Butowski in his ...

In the past 40 years, several jet-powered commercial airplanes have encountered clouds of volcanic ash and suffered damage as a result. In 1982, when Mount Galunggung volcano, Indonesia, erupted, ...