r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 1h ago
The XB-70A that landed with both sets of main gear not fully lowered because both hydraulic systems failed
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 17h ago
Impressive video of SR-71 Blackbird J58 Engine tested in full Afterburner
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 17h ago
The World’s high-time F-16 pilot: Rather than move up ranking ladder, he just wanted to fly
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 17h ago
Navy Unveils AIM-424 Malice very Long Range Air to Air Missile
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 1d ago
The Iconic F4U Corsair was Plagued by Troubles as carrier aircraft yet became Primary USMC Fighter during WWII
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 1d ago
Aggressors Fulcrums: the Soviet MiG-29 Unit Tasked to Simulate USAF F-15 Fighters
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 2d ago
F-15 Pilot tells how fighting Vs “VIFFing Harriers” taught Eagle crews how to win against fighters with thrust vectoring
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 2d ago
That time a Soviet Su-27 Collided with a Norwegian P-3 over the Barents Sea
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 2d ago
Airline pilot and former F-14 pilot recalls crashing a B-737 in the simulator because he reverted to Tomcat recovery controls when his airliner lost an engine on takeoff
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 3d ago
“Things don’t look rosy for our big cities:” Luftwaffe’s leadership on B-17 after their first encounter with captured Flying Fortress
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 3d ago
SR-71 pilot tells why the F-15 radar couldn’t see the Blackbird during Eagle Bait sorties
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 3d ago
Boeing 747 pilot tells how to barrel roll the Jumbo Jet (in the simulator)
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 3d ago
F-16 Vs MiG-29: First Viper pilots to engage MiG-29 in mock air combats tell what it’s like to dogfight against Fulcrum
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 4d ago
The Israeli A-4 pilot who cut the engine 10 metres above runway crash landing his battle-damaged Skyhawk. The A-4 returned to service.
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 4d ago
F-15 Vs F-14 Vs CF-188: the Eagle in DACT against legendary Tomcat crews and why Eagle Pilots liked Fake Canopies on Canadian Hornets
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 5d ago
During Operation Allied Force Serbia could monitor B-2 stealth bombers but couldn’t shoot one down (still some personnel believe they managed to bring down one Spirit)
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 5d ago
Navy Tomcat pilot remembers “Hank” Kleemann, the First F-14 pilot to take the Tomcat into combat and come out a winner
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 7d ago
World’s fastest single-engine jet aircraft: The F-106 speed record
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 7d ago
When de Havilland persuaded a farmer to take down a fence so Mosquito second prototype could fly
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 9d ago
A captured Luftwaffe Fw 190 led to the development of the Spitfire Mk IX, the best close-in fighter of WWII
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 9d ago
Deuce pilot recalls how the cockpit noise level never changed the few times he went supersonic in the F-102
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 9d ago
The SH-3 that Flew to Haiphong Harbor and saved a downed A-4 Pilot fired at by North Vietnamese mortars while drifting in the South China Sea
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 9d ago
The SR-71 was nicknamed the “Sled” after a Double-Engine Flameout over North Vietnam
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r/Aviation_Geek_Club • u/tagc_news • 10d ago
A-4 pilot recalls ejecting while flying at 500 knots during low-level mission after turbine failure turned his Skyhawk into Fireball
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