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Here are Some Great Aviation Book Recommendations for the COVID-19 Quarantine.

March 26, 2020 Tom Demerly David Cenciotti 0

Here is what The Aviationist Suggests You to Read During the Quarantine, Isolation or Stay at Home period. During our Instagram Live Story show on Tuesday, March 24, David Cenciotti and Tom Demerly got ideas […]

We Visit the Last Surviving Titan II Missile Silo in a Flashback to the Cold War

March 12, 2019 Tom Demerly 0

Arizona’s Remote Titan Missile Museum is a Rare Gem of Cold War History. Miss Christel Widera may be the sweetest grandmother you’ve ever met. A great sense of humor, wears a neatly turned out cardigan. […]

That Time the Luftwaffe Experimented with a Rocket-Launched F-104G Starfighter

January 12, 2018 Tom Demerly 17

“Zero Length Launch” Was Tested in Germany on an F-104G. Here’s the Video. Almost every aviation enthusiast has probably seen the famous June 1957 test videos of a North American F-100 Super Saber being launched […]

“We Did Barrel Rolls Around Tu-95s At The Request Of The Soviets”: F-4 WSO Explains The Story Of The Phantom Upside Down Near Bear

December 9, 2017 David Cenciotti 13

Here are some memories from the Weapon Systems Officer who shot the famous photograph of the F-4 flying inverted near a Soviet Tu-95 Bear bomber. Last week we have published a blurry shot of a […]

U.S. Air Force A-10 pilot who took part in a famous mission that knocked out 23 Iraqi tanks logs 6,000 hours in the Warthog

December 2, 2016 David Cenciotti 3

Whiteman Thunderbolt pilot has spent the equivalent of 250 days flying the A-10 “tankbuster” across the world (including 11 combat deployments.) On Nov. 14, 2016, Lt. Col. John Marks, a pilot with the 303rd Fighter […]