Tag: F-18

Blue Angels' almost crash: the risk of Controlled Flight Into Terrain during formation aerobatics

On May 22, 2011, the US Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron was performing…

Fighter generations comparison chart

The appearance of the new J-20 (unofficially dubbed "Black Eagle") raised many…

Wings over Atlanta: the Dobbins Air Reserve Base airshow

In the last few weeks readers of this blog have had the…

Axalp 2010

In 2006 I went to Axalp, Switzerland, and wrote a detailed report…

Compressor stalls

When, last year, I visited the USS Nimitz and had the opportunity…

F-35C first flight (and heat and noise concerns…)

On Jun. 6, 2010, piloted by Lockheed Martin Test Pilot Jeff Knowles',…