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The most unusual MiG killer: the Skyraider air-to-air victories on North Vietnamese MiG-17s

January 14, 2015 Dario Leone

The Douglas Skyraider has been the last piston engine propelled aircraft to shoot down a jet fighter. The last propeller U.S. Navy attack aircraft to disappear from the decks of the flattops was the Douglas AD Skyraider. […]

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Join a B-52 on a Linebacker II mission with this story about the Christmas bombing campaign over Hanoi

January 5, 2015 Dario Leone

The first of the many bombing sorties flew by the BUFFs during “The December Raids” conducted against North Vietnam Targets. Even if the Boeing B-52 was born to be the mainstay of the U.S. Air […]

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You Gotta Be Shitting Me! The Story of the first U.S. SAM-hunters in Vietnam

March 13, 2014 Dario Leone

In addition to being the first of the so called “Century Series” fighters and the first U.S. Air Force plane able to reach supersonic speed in level flight, the North American F-100 Super Sabre was […]

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Declassified documents of MiG fighter jets testing activity at Area 51 available for download

November 2, 2013 David Cenciotti

In the late 1960s, CIA, U.S. Air Force, Navy and several other agencies were involved in highly classified programs whose purpose was to evaluate MiG fighter jets and study the best ways to face them […]

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