The SR-71’s Record-Breaking Transatlantic Crossing
September 1st, 1974, was pretty much just another average day for New Yorkers. It didn’t look like either the Yankees or the Mets would make the playoffs (neither did), [read more...]
New York
Interview: Dogfighting with Learjets
Not too long ago, I posted an article on Draken International, a firm based out of Florida that is home to the largest private air force in the world (meaning that its [read more...]
Tigers, Dives and 20 mm Cannons
On Friday the 21st, 1956, one of Grumman’s in-house test pilots, Thomas W. Attridge Jr. climed into a borrowed Navy Grumman F11F-1 Tiger (BuNo 138620), taxied out, [read more...]
Intruder II
From the flight deck of the Intrepid, the A-6F Intruder. The A6F, first known as the A-6E Upgrade, was designed as an advanced version of the A-6E Intruder, then already in [read more...]
