Israel’s First Strike on Iran’s Nuclear Facilities – Part 1
The Eitans take off first. They’re the slowest, only 220 knots flat out, and for best endurance, they’ll cruise at …
Aerospace
Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS II) for Fixed Wing Jet Aircraft, UAVs
Work is underway to develop BAE Systems’ APKWS II for fast jets. On Feb. 10, 2011, the Navy awarded a …
B-26 Marauder Pilot Fought the German Jets
Long after World War II, former B-26 Marauder medium bomber pilot Jim Vining was in a room with Adolf Galland, …
The Messerschmitt Me 262 Jet Fighter
The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe (“Swallow”), also called the Sturmvogel (“Stormbird”) in its fighter-bomber version, was the world’s first operational …
The Grumman XF10F-1 Jaguar
The Grumman XF10F-1 Jaguar fighter of the 1950s would have been a brilliant mistake if the thinking behind it had …
F-35B Flies With External Stores
Lockheed Martin recently released this video of the F-35B variant carrying external stores. Prominent among them is the stealthy centerline …
X-37B’s First Two Missions Earn Success and Speculation
On Saturday, June 16, 2012, at 5:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time (12:48 Zulu), the X-37B program’s unmanned Orbital Test Vehicle …
Book Review – Thunderbolts of the Hell Hawks, by Don Barnes, John Crump, and Roy Sutherland
Once in a while, a book will capture your attention not because it’s educational, not because it’s entertaining, but because …
Messerschmitt’s P.1101 Never Flew, but Influenced Aviation for Decades
When American tanks rolled into Oberammergau in Bavaria on April 29, 1945, the war had not yet ended and the …
Capt. F. Gary Powers, CIA U-2 Pilot, Awarded the Silver Star
Capt. Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of the Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane that was shot down over the …