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From The Cockpit: F-35 Lightning II Demonstrator

January 15, 2015

I am often amazed at my timing–good or bad. Today I was definitely in the right place at the right time and I just had to share the experience with View More ›

From the Cockpit: Strike Fighter Ball 2014

January 13, 2015

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: 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: Thunderbird Solo

January 8, 2015

I, like many of my friends, was bit by the flying bug thanks to the United States Air Force Aerial Demonstration Squadron–the Thunderbirds. In my case, I was three years View More ›

From The Cockpit: Dassault Rafale

January 7, 2015

I was born in the ’70s in Arizona, so I have been a dedicated American aircraft homer my entire life. It was difficult not to be, growing up around F-16s, View More ›

Burner Friday: Dassault Rafale

January 3, 2015

I believe it was William Lear who once said “If it looks good, it will fly good.” This is something that can definitely stated for the Dassault Rafale. Although it View More ›

Back in the Fight: USAF F-16Ds Return to Service

January 2, 2015

Back in August, over half of the Lockheed-Martin F-16Ds in the USAF inventory were removed from flight after cracks were identified along the canopy sill longeron. This particular longeron in 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.