Taken by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class (MC1) Larry Carlson and published on Naval Air Station (NAS) Fallon Facebook page the awesome photos in this post were taken during the filming of Top Gun: Maverick and feature one of the US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet (call sign Bravo-20) strike fighters involved in the making of the movie doing a super low pass. Usually, the US Navy forbids pilots...
Blackbird RSO tells the story of the first time a SAM was fired at an SR-71 Mach 3+ Spy Plane – The Aviation Geek Club
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was a long-range, high-altitude, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft operated by the US Air Force (USAF). During aerial reconnaissance missions, the SR-71 operated at high speeds and altitudes (Mach 3.2 and 85,000 feet), allowing it to outrace or entirely avoid threats. If a surface-to-air missile launch was detected, the standard evasive action was simply to...
SR-71 RSO’s daughter tells the story of when her father became the first USAF officer to eject from a Bla… – The Aviation Geek Club
The SR-71 Blackbird ejection seat was the SR-1, a Lockheed Design that was not much different from the Stanley designed Lockheed C-2 (later modified into the S/R-2) seat which preceded it in other aircraft (the C-2 seatwas used in the very early A-12s and SR-71 Blackbirds). According to The Ejection Site, some of the differences between the C-2 and the SR-1 seat included the omission of...
Boeing Starts New A-10 Warthog Wing Deliveries to USAF – The Aviation Geek Club
Boeing, in partnership with Korean Aerospace Industries and other key suppliers, has delivered the first new wing set for the A-10 Warthog fleet to the US Air Force (USAF). The wing set arrived earlier this month to Hill Air Force Base in Ogden, Utah, where the Air Force has started aircraft integration. “Boeing is working diligently to deliver greatly needed new wings for the A-10...
Lithuania nears deal to buy Black Hawks, ditch Soviet-era helicopters – Vertical Magazine
Latest IssueArticles & Media Additional Links Estimated reading time 4 minutes, 11 seconds. Lithuania is on the verge of finalizing a deal to buy four UH-60M helicopters from the U.S. government, part of a larger deal for six Black Hawks to replace its aging Russian-built Mi-8s approved in July.The country’s Ministry of Defence announced Nov. 10 that it is “set to sign a...
From the F/A-18 Super Hornet to the F-14 Tomcat: all the Fighter Aircraft featured in Top Gun: Maverick – The Aviation Geek Club
Top Gun: Maverick, the sequel to the 1986 classic puts Pete “Maverick” Mitchell back in the cockpit to train a new group of young aviators. Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it. The original Top Gun...
The Pentagon dismisses Polish plan to provide MiG-29 Fulcrum Fighter Jets to be sent to Ukraine – The Aviation Geek Club
On Mar. 8, 2022 Poland said it will hand over its MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jets to the US to be sent to Ukraine, in a move which appeared to take Washington by surprise and was quickly dismissed by the Pentagon, The Guardian reported. Poland was “ready to deploy – immediately and free of charge – all their MiG-29 jets to the Ramstein airbase and place them at the disposal of the government of the...
The epic story of the F-14 Tomcat pilot who disobeyed the order to return to the carrier to provide CAS sup… – The Aviation Geek Club
At the forefront of the Global War on Terror from the very start, the venerable F-14 Tomcat led the first manned air strikes on Afghanistan in October 2001. Flying from aircraft carriers cruising in the Northern Arabian Sea off the coast of Pakistan, naval aviators flew their Grumman fighter-bombers on six- to eight- hour missions in support of Special Forces and Northern Alliance fighters...
USAF selects E-7 Wedgetail to replace a portion of the E-3 Sentry AWACS Fleet – The Aviation Geek Club
Based on market research, the Department of the Air Force has decided to replace a portion of the E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) fleet with the E-7 Wedgetail, which is produced by The Boeing Company. According to an Air Force news release, the Boeing E-7 is the only platform capable of meeting the requirements for the Defense Department’s tactical battle management...
US Marine Corps Declares Initial Operational Capability Of Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion – The Aviation Geek Club
The US Marine Corps (USMC) declared Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for the CH-53K King Stallion heavy lift helicopter, validating the platform’s operational readiness to forward deploy Marines and equipment across the globe. Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company, designed and manufactures the CH-53K, which enables the USMC and international militaries to move troops and equipment from...
