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This nifty little plane did its part to defeat the Axis. Key point: This plane served in its own rightly role. Here is its forgotten history. If there is an American combat airplane that has achieved an ill-deserved reputation, no doubt it would be the much-maligned Bell P-39 Airacobra, a tricycle landing gear single-engine fighter whose reputation was greatly overshadowed by the more famous, and of more recent design, Lockheed P-38 Lightning, Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk, Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, ...

Share This: The power of the human mind has been a subject of study for a long time. The remarkable ways in which a certain type of mental conditioning can help an individual or a collective are well documented. But much of what can be accomplished by using the brain remains an enigma. Questions about the best ways to leverage the mind still remain. Nevertheless, one of the easiest and most effective ways to succeed in all types of scenarios, particularly in challenging ones, is visualization....

But the alliance did not last. Heres What You Need to Remember: Saddam’s defeat in 1991, coupled with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, brought an end to the clandestine Israel-Iran alliance. Tehran increasingly leaned on its support for anti-Israeli groups to win influence and alliances in the Arab world, while Israel now understood Iran to be the most likely hostile state in the region to acquire nuclear weapons. At dawn on September 30, 1980 four American-made F-4E Phantom jets screame...

A colorful view of the cockpit in a KC-135 tanker responsible for refueling A-10 fighter planes, during during a training exercise for students enrolled in the A-10C Pilot Initial Qualification Course in need of accomplishing their night refueling training. Photo courtesy of U.S. Air Force photo/Airman Jerilyn Quintanilla

The F-35 Has Been Unstoppable in Every War Game It Has Ever Played “I’ve never seen anything like it before. My wingman was a brand new F-35A pilot, seven or eight flights out of training. He gets on the radio and tells an experienced, 3,000 hour pilot in a fourth-generation aircraft. ‘Hey bud, you need to turn around. You’re about to die." Heres What You Need To Remember: The F-35 is lightyears ahead of its competition. As 60 enemy fighters closed in on a US Air Force 4th Generation f...

National Guard Activations in 2020 Rose Amid Crises and F-16 Crash, But Stocks Still Soar   Share   Share National Guard activations in 2020 climbed amid crises and a fatal F-16 crash that remains under investigation, but stocks keep soaring anyway after recovering from an early-year market drop.  The National Guard activations in 2020 surged in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, destructive hurricanes, devastating wildfires and civil disturbances in cities across the country. However, inv...

Eat that! Spectacular moment US F15 fires missile and blows drone out of the sky during training exercise off British coast The mission was part of a live fire exercise that took place over sea off the coast of the UK on December 8  Footage shows an F15-C Eagle fighter jet shooting down its target with a a Sidewinder missile The e vent was carried out by the 493d Fighter Squadron, or The Grim Reapers, of the US Air Force 

By Capt. Jessica Gross, 301st Fighter Wing / Published December 30, 2020 Klint’s father, Wilbur ‘Bud’ Klint, was a WWII B-17 bomber pilot who served and accomplished more than 20 aerial combat missions under the 303rd Bomb Wing between August 16, 1943 and February 20, 1944. Many of these missions have been documented in multiple publications and lauded in the aviation community for their success during a major U.S. war. (U.S. Air Force graphic by Capt. Jessica Gross) (Lef...

BOOM! What Was That? Mysterious “Sonic Boom” Shakes Tucson This Morning. BOOM! What Was That? Mysterious “Sonic Boom” Shakes Tucson This Morning. Air Force Claims Mysterious “Boom” Wasn’t Them. Local News Suggests, “Earthquake or Mine Blast”. Tucson, Arizona residents near Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and across the city of Tucson are reporting a loud “sonic boom” that happened at 10.44AM local time on Tuesday morning, Dec. 29, 2020. According to a news report published on...

One of the six F-16s arriving at NAS Rota on Dec. 28, 2020. (All images: David Parody) The F-16s of the 93rd Fighter Squadron “Makos” are believed to be deploying to the CENTCOM area of operations. On Dec. 28, 2020, six F-16s belonging to the 93rd FS “Makos” belonging to the 482nd Fighter Wing, Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida, AFRC (Air Force Reserve Command), made a stopover at Naval Air Station Rota, Spain. The aircraft, using radio callsigns TABOR61-66, were supported by GOLD11 (...