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The Daring Defection of The Secret Soviet Super Fighter

September 6, 2018 Tom Demerly

The West Thought the MiG-25 Was a Deadly, Agile Superfighter. What They Learned Was Surprising. 1430 Hrs. Local, September 6, 1976. Sea of Japan near Hakodate Airport, Hokkaido Prefecture. Jet fuel burned faster than he […]

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Well Before The SR-72 Was Conceived, The Iconic SR-71 Blackbird Proved “Speed Is The Real Stealth”

October 6, 2017 David Cenciotti

The SR-71 Blackbird was so fast it outran every missile shoot against it and every interceptor scrambled to intercept it. The aviation “side” of the Web went abuzz following the rumor that an SR-72 prototype […]

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New Search For Avro Arrow Flight Models Lost 60 Years Ago in Lake Ontario Has Begun

August 4, 2017 Tom Demerly

Scale Model Flight Test Prototypes Sunk in Lake May Provide Clues to Mystery. The Canadian-built CF-105 Avro Arrow is many things in aviation history, but more than anything else, it is an enigma. Aviation historians […]

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The Story Of The Soviet Pilot Who Defected To Japan With A Secretive MiG-25 Foxbat

September 6, 2016 Jacek Siminski

OTD in 1976, Viktor Belenko, “stole” a MiG-25 and landed in Japan. The then Lieutenant Belenko was a pilot with the 513th Fighter Regiment, 11th Air Army, based in Chuguyevka, Primorsky Krai, in the east […]

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The unknown story of the reconnaissance aircraft that Israeli F-4s were never able to intercept

December 18, 2015 Dario Leone

When Israel acquired the F-4E in 1969, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) needed an aircraft superior to any fighter-bomber in the Middle East. Thanks to its proven radar and to the AIM-7 Sparrow missile system, […]

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