aerial combat Archives

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

December 18, 2015 David Cenciotti

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

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

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

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

Lockheed Martin claims F-35 kinematics are “better than or equal to” Eurofighter Typhoon. A Eurofighter test pilot disagrees. In an interesting piece by Flight’s Dave Majumdar, Billie Flynn, Lockheed test pilot responsible for flight envelope […]