"No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
What’s interesting about this short video clip is that it shows a bare-naked F-15 taking off, a rare event. You see, a naked fighter is useless … it carries no weapons and can’t perform any of its combat missions. They don’t let you fly ’em naked because they aren’t supposed to fly naked. This Oregon […]
The first time I landed an F-15 Eagle, from the front of a two-seater family model at Luke AFB, Arizona, I was amazed at how softly it touched down.
… I saw plenty of Belgian Mirage IIIs during my time in NATO, and once had a semi-close encounter with a pair of French ones while on a cross-country to Spain, a story worth sharing here.
I recently sat for a three-hour Zoom interview with a Dutch friend who follows my blog, Robert Hoeting.
It’s election day here in the States. My way of avoiding anxiety-inducing news and social media is to stay busy with something else: namely, a visit to Pima Air & Space Museum, a long session of photo editing, and now, as the time for early projections approaches, the task of putting together a blog post.
The average F-15 Eagle pilot (and me for sure) sees the two-seat pilot/WSO Eagle II as a step backward to F-4 Phantom/F-111 Aardvark days. Still a fighter, no doubt more capable than the single-seat Eagle, but …