One afternoon a few years ago, I found myself on the ramp at Nellis Air Force Base walking around a Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle with Nicole Malachowski. It was a View More ›
In Hornet vs Viper (Part Two), an pilot who’s flown both F-16 and F-18 looks at the differences in preflight briefing, gear worn by pilots, and boarding and preparing for takeoff.
At 0940Z this morning, contact was lost with a Germanwings Airbus A320 enroute from Barcelona to Düsseldorf in the Alps in southern France.
Welcome back, FighterSweep fans! For this week’s edition of Milestone Monday, we’re going to take a look at yet another controversial aircraft – imagine that! – but this time one operated View More ›
“There are threats out there that would be difficult to defeat and defend against with our current sensor suite.”
Yesterday, the DC Air National Guard’s 113th Wing reached a huge milestone for its Aerospace Control Alert (ACA) Detachment. When the klaxon sounded, it was alert event number 5,000. Even View More ›
For the purposes of full disclosure, I have a duty to inform you all that I am a U.S. Navy (Reserve) F/A-18 Hornet pilot. And while some may remark of View More ›
We have all seen the Pentagon briefings and clips on the news featuring vehicles with armed ne’er-do-wells inside fleeing an area at a high rate of speed, only to be View More ›
It’s that time again, everybody. Our weekly holiday trip to burnerville! Stupid? Yes. Accurate? Absolutely. For Burner Friday this week, we bring you some lovely plumage courtesy of our Viper-flying View More ›
There is a long string of barrier islands extending north to south (ish) approximately two hundred miles from the southeastern corner of Virginia and it covers most of the coastline View More ›