Military Aviation Archives - Page 170 of 192

The Phoenix Lights: UFO Cover-Up Or Air Force Training?

December 26, 2015

The Phoenix Lights. It was an incident which occurred on 13 March 1997, with witnesses from as far north as the Nevada state line to as far south as Tucson. View More ›

Milestone Monday: First Flight of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat!

Happy Monday, FighterSweep Fans! We wanted to start the week off correctly, and it’s hard to imagine a better way than celebrated the first flight of the ever-awesome, amazing, and View More ›

Air-to-Air With Bulgarian Air Force MiG-21Fishbeds!

December 20, 2015

FighterSweep Fans, we can’t speak for you, but on our end–when given the opportunity–Sundays often provide the perfect time to get outside and go take a leisurely loop around the View More ›

From The Cockpit: Lone Star Gunfighters!

December 19, 2015

Happy Saturday, FighterSweep Fans!! We trust you’re having a great weekend thus far, and in the event you weren’t, we have just what the doctor ordered: keeping time with the Lone View More ›

Milestone Thursday: First B-2A Spirit Delivered To USAF

December 17, 2015

Happy Thursday, FighterSweep Fans! On this day in 1993, Northrop-Grumman delivered the very first “Stealth Bomber,” the Spirit of Missouri, to Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. Any B-2A Spirit View More ›

Milestone Tuesday: F-35 Lightning II First Flight

December 15, 2015

Happy Tuesday, FighterSweep Fans! For this week’s milestone, we go back nine years to the first flight of the F-35 Lightning II. Love it or hate it, the F-35–in all of View More ›

Milestone Friday: F-15E Strike Eagle First Flight!

December 11, 2015

On this day in 1986, at McDonnell Douglas’ production facility at Lambert Field in Saint Louis, Missouri, history was made when the very first F-15E Strike Eagle took to the View More ›

The Mighty Ike Hosts The Joint Strike Fighter!

December 10, 2015

In October 2015, a pair of Lockheed Martin F-35Cs from the US Navy’s Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Two Three (VX-23) and a test team from Patuxent River deployed aboard View More ›

Happy Birthday To The Swamp Fox!

December 9, 2015

Sixty-nine years ago today, the National Guard Bureau handed down the charter formally recognizing the 157th Fighter Squadron as a unit of the South Carolina Air National Guard. The Swamp View More ›

Blue Angels To Transition To Super Hornet?

December 8, 2015

Those who work in the airshow industry have heard rumblings of this for the past couple years, but it appears as though the long-held speculation has turned into fact: the View More ›