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10 months of learning how to fly and employ the F-16 at Luke AFB in one stunning video.

December 18, 2015 David Cenciotti 6

Here’s how student pilots train to employ then fly and fight in the Viper. This is an interesting +11 minutes video filmed by pilots attending the F-16 B Course with the 309th Fighting Squadron at […]

Let’s celebrate Top Gun Day with this cool video: F-14 versus Everything

May 13, 2015 Dario Leone 24

May 13th is Top Gun Day. This video proves that the F-14 Tomcat was much more than a capable fleet defender. Clips taken from the Tomcat HUD and TCS, show that the F-14 could win […]

Rare insight into F-22 Raptor vs T-38 Talon aerial combat training at Langley

November 26, 2014 Todd Miller 19

This is how F-22 fighter pilots train to improve their air-to-air skills. The venerable T-38 Talon which first flew in 1959 (production ceased in 1972) has found new life as an adversary aircraft used to […]

Spitfire vs Bf 109 and F-14 vs Su-27: the difference is always the pilot

May 31, 2013 Dario Leone 29

It’s not always the best aircraft that wins in an air-to-air engagement. Most of the times it is the training the pilot has received and his/her skills, experience to make the difference: that’s why a […]

“No way an F-35 will ever match a Typhoon fighter jet in aerial combat” Eurofighter test pilot says

February 11, 2013 David Cenciotti 227

In an interesting piece by Flight’s Dave Majumdar, Bill Flynn, Lockheed test pilot responsible for flight envelope expansion activities for the F-35 claimed that all three variants of the Joint Strike Fighter will have better kinematic […]