The F-22 Raptor was engineered to be a spectre. A fifth-generation marvel with thrust-vectoring, supercruise, and radar-absorbing skin, an almost alien machine built to dominate the skies for the next four decades. Continue reading
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MiG-23 – Jet So Fast the US Had to Steal One
In a secret base buried deep within the Nevada desert, a pilot climbs into a jet unlike anything ever built on American soil. The controls are alien, scattered with no apparent logic, covered in strange, foreign letters. No ordinary pilot could ever decipher the maze of dials and switches. Continue reading
Douglas A-26 Invader – the Plane Built for One Job but Did it All
It was every Allied bomber pilot’s worst nightmare. Flying his Douglas A-26 Invader over northern France, Major Myron L. Durkee unexpectedly finds himself picked out as prey for Hitler’s terrifying new weapon: the Messerschmitt Me-262, a jet-powered assassin seemingly sent from the future. Continue reading
Heinkel He 178 – the World’s First Jet Aircraft
The Heinkel He 178 was an experimental aircraft designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Heinkel. It was the world’s first aircraft to fly using the thrust from a turbojet engine. Continue reading
Douglas A-1 Skyraider – America’s Prop Monster No Jet Could Kill
On June 20, 1965, two MiG-17s circled the smoking wreckage of an F-4 Phantom deep in North Vietnam, the first of its kind shot down in the war. The MiG pilots expected what usually came next: more Phantoms screaming in at twice the speed of sound. Then they heard a sound that didn’t belong in 1965: the deep, thundering growl of massive propellers. Continue reading
Skydiver POV Through Red Bull Can Made of 600 Drones in Dubai
The Red Bull Skydive Team has been pushing the boundaries of conventional freefall since first dropping from the sky in style in 2014. Continue reading
Lockheed XF-90 – the Nuclear-Proof Jet America Ditched
The XF-90 was built like no fighter before… or since. At a time when no one knew what supersonic flight would do to metal, Skunk Works chose brute force over guesswork. They forged the strongest airframe on Earth: 75S aluminum over a steel spine, the fuselage braced until it was closer to armour than aircraft. Continue reading
Hawker Sea Fury: The Last Prop Fighter that Outran the Jet Age
Meet the Hawker Sea Fury, the Royal Navy’s last and fastest piston fighter, a “super prop” born at the edge of the jet age. In this episode we dive into its Sopwith/Hawker roots, the Bristol Centaurus sleeve-valve engine, combat over Korea and the Bay of the Pigs, and its second life dominating the Reno Air Races. Continue reading