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V/STOL: Vertical / Short Take Off & Landing
This edition of Warbird Porn will look at the fighter jets that have the amazing capability to take off straight up, or, with a heavy payload, use a very short runway, or even a straight stretch of road.
Development: Harrier Jump Jet
In the late 1950s, […]
Todays Warbird Porn is a little different than past editions. Instead of focusing on one aircraft, today we will look at a special type of mission, called SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defences), or as most people know it as, The Wild Weasels.
Wild Weasels are the Air Force designation for the aircraft that fly […]
Thanks to Pete Fanning’s reminder that on todays date in history, the youngest pilot in the American military was shot down while flying his 58th combat mission, over the island of Chichi Jima. The pilot was of course George H. W. Bush, and the aircraft he flew, was the Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bomber (labeled […]
It has been a few weeks since an installment of Warbird Porn was posted, and today’s Warbird isn’t the sexiest in the fleet, but it is undoubtedly one of the most important, the KC-135 Stratotanker.
The KC-135 Stratotanker is an air to air refueling aircraft. It is basically a militarized version of the Boeing 707 (both […]
Today’s edition of Warbird Porn takes a look at an aircraft that most people will look at and think Top Gun! The Grumman F-14 Tomcat
In the late 1960’s, development of the next generation of Navy Air Superiority Fighter began, Originally, it was believed that the new aircraft would be the General Dynamics F-111, but the […]
Today’s edition of Warbird Porn is our first rotary wing aircraft (helicopter), the Bell UH-1 Iroquois, or as everyone knows it, The Huey!
No other aircraft symbolizes Viet Nam, like the Huey. This aircraft entered full service with the army in 1962, and some 7,000 of them served during the war. There were several variants as […]
When you think of aircraft in Korea, you think MiG Alley, and you think of the ruler of MiG Alley, the North American F-86 Sabre.
When America and the United Nations entered the war in Korea, the Soviet made and Chinese & North Korean piloted MiG-15 was the master of the sky. The UN forces […]
Today’s edition of Warbird Porn is an aircraft that you have all seen, but probably don’t know a lot about, the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk. And you can’t discuss this World War 2 fighter plane without mentioning the men that made it famous, the American Volunteer Group (AVG), or as they are better known, The Flying […]
Today’s installment of Warbird Porn is the Bell P-39 Airacobra and it’s offshoot the P-63 Kingcobra. This is one of the more obscure aircraft used by the U.S. in World War 2, but I have always thought that it was one of the more interesting.
The P-39 was one of the primary fighters in the US […]
SR-71 Blackbird. An aircraft that is so fast, that even today, years after its retirement from military service, its top speed is still classified. Every time an aircraft broke a speed record, a Blackbird would come out and break it by just a little more.
This Warbird never fired a shot or dropped a bomb, […]
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