Upgrade gets you Su-34 mug, signed book, RAF blood chit tea towel & WW2 badge
The Sukhoi Su-34 does not have an exact Western equivalent. With a strategic un-refuelled range...
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Eurofighter Typhoon versus Dassault Rafale: A 2020 comparison
In 2015, Research Fellow at the RUSI Think-tank Justin Bronk, compared Europe’s two...
Read More The US Air Force Secretly Designed and Flew a New Fighter Jet Testbed and I just Feel Depressed
When I heard a new sixth generation fighter technology demonstrator flew I didn’t feel...
Read More Flying & fighting the F-4 Phantom II in the Iran-Iraq War: Interview with Iranian Air Force Brig. General (Rtd) Alireza Namaki
The volume and brutality of the Iran-Iraqi air war of the 1980s was astonishing. On the 40th...
Read More The weirdest aeroplane you’ve never heard of, the utterly batshit Plymouth A-A-2004
Have you heard of the Magnus effect? Of course you have. Anyway, just in case you’ve...
Read More 10 cancelled US fighter aircraft
Rusting away in the desert of history, here are ten charismatic American fighter aircraft that...
Read More Plane Queer: how flight attendants became sexy & the truth behind the male ‘trolley dolly’
Where does the stereotype of the gay air steward come from? Is it true? Why do we sexualise air...
Read More The last Gunfighter: Analysis of F-8 Crusader success over North Vietnam
By Louis S. Gundlach, Senior Air Warfare Analyst, Retired Marine Corps Fighter Pilot and Denver...
Read More “Land rules don’t apply and the little nuts just don’t soak up all that booze”: A history of aviation by someone who knows nothing and hasn’t even googled it
I was curious to know what a normal (non aeroplane obsessed) person knows about aviation, so I asked the artist and actor Penny Klein. This is directly from her memory with no research, fact-checking or googling. “I...
Read MoreThe Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes project is launched: 100% funded reached
Thank you! We’ve done it! I’m extremely excited to announce The Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes has reached 100% funding thanks to your support. We can now commence with work on what promises to be an exceptional coffee...
Read MoreHow to crash and survive in an F-8: The US Navy Crusader fighter pilot who cheated death
“There comes a time for me to recount my last flight at the controls of a military aircraft. A flight of four launched out of NAS Miramar on a beautiful, clear, California Fall morning, October 3, 1968. It was a flight of...
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