How is a U.S. Air Force Weapons School candidate chosen? What kind of person winds up on the career path placing them at Nellis Air Force Base for six months?
U.S. Air Force Weapons School: The Challenge
August 25, 2014
Flying the F-5 Tiger II (Part 5)
The F-5 was the enabler of this amazing flying club. It was a link between the pure era of fighting machines to the modern age of digital combat. The plane View More ›
C-130 Hercules: THE Great American Airplane
August 22, 2014
Let me give you my completely biased opinion: the Lockeed-Martin C-130 Hercules is THE greatest American airplane ever built. It’s not pretty and it’s not glamorous. It’s a down and dirty, View More ›
Gallery: Grumman F-14A/A+/D Tomcat
August 22, 2014
Tomcat. Turkey. Bombcat. Peeping Tom. The Big Fighter. The first flight of the Grumman F-14 was 21 December 1970 and was made its first deployment aboard the USS Enterprise in September 1974. It saw View More ›
The Right Use of Airpower at the Right Time (Part 2)
Last week we wrote about whether or not the airstrikes in Iraq against ISIS had a chance to be effective and what their objectives and scope should be. As it View More ›
The Knife Fight – Dogfighting in an F-16 (Part 1)
August 20, 2014
Jet pilots never plan to get in a dogfight—it is more survivable and cheaper (think gas) to pick the enemy off well outside of visual range—but as Paco alludes to, View More ›
Flying the F-5 Tiger II (Part 4)
An in-house BFM sortie between two seasoned pilots would consist of a short brief, a quick candy bar and a walk from the Ready Room 20 to 30 minutes before View More ›
U.S. Air Force Weapons School (Part 3)
August 18, 2014
Over the course of five and a half months, the U.S. Air Force Weapons School makes its students the very best mission commanders in their particular disciplines, and ultimately they View More ›
To Suppress and Destroy: A History of the Wild Weasel (Part 3)
August 17, 2014
As the F-4G retired from service in 1996, a new aircraft stepped in: the Block 50/52 configuration of the Lockheed-Martin F-16C Fighting Falcon, commonly referred to as the Viper. The delineation View More ›
“We own the night…”
August 16, 2014
Great video of Captain Scott WORF Eshelman refueling his F-16C at night off the wing of a KC-135 Stratotanker in a Green Flag-West exercise.