We’ve seen the West Coast Hornet Ball, thanks to our good friend and compatriot Wingnut. The Australians have thrown their hat into the mix, and did a darn fine job. View More ›
From the Cockpit: Strike Fighter Ball 2014
January 13, 2015
From The Cockpit: Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet
January 12, 2015
Today we bring you yet another awesome video that has been making the rounds this weekend, featuring the Echo Drivers of VFA-143 out of Naval Air Station Oceana. Known as View More ›
From The Cockpit: DubFighter
January 1, 2015
Watch a short video made by Wingnut for the 2013 Hornet Ball, an annual event for West coast F-18 Hornet and Super Hornet squadrons.
From The Cockpit: The Nasty SHB
As Paco says, “It’s a Navy thing. More, it’s a CV thing, ‘CV’ being the code for carrier, the kind of carrier that has cross-deck pendants and planes with hooks. View More ›
From The Cockpit: Cloud Surfing in the Super Hornet
December 30, 2014
If you’re on a VFR flight plan in American airspace, cloud-surfing is big no-no in the eyes of the FAA. But since we’re talking about F/A-18F Super Hornets on deployment, those rules don’t apply.
The F-14A Tomcat: Gone But Not Forgotten, Baby!!
December 22, 2014
December 21, 1970 probably played out like it usually does for most: four days before Christmas for the folks at home usually means last minute shopping for presents, growing resentment View More ›
From The Cockpit: “Shoot ‘Em If You Got ‘Em!”
December 13, 2014
This fantastic video by the “Royal Maces” of VFA-27, based at NAF Atsugi, Japan, is just a teaser for their full-length cruise video. The video features some absolutely spectacular imagery View More ›
The Last of the Dogfighters Video, Veterans Day Special
The Last of the Dogfighters! A little eye candy and laughs from the badass adversary pilots of VFC-13.
Hornet Ball 2014
October 29, 2014
My buddy Wingnut is not only an intrepid and steely-eyed fighter pilot who has already garnered some well deserved ink here on FighterSweep, but he also happens to be a pretty damn View More ›
In Memoriam: Lieutenant Nathan Poloski
Today, the Navy released the name of the F/A-18 pilot who lost his life a few days ago flying from the USS Carl Vinson. It was a tragic incident in View More ›