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Midweek Sortie 34: Luke AFB—The Arizona Base That Built Generations of Fighter Pilots
Luke Air Force Base has transformed thousands of young aviators into combat-ready fighter pilots—from the propeller-driven warbirds of World War II to…
Poland’s Italian-Built F-35 Makes Its First Flight and Look Back at Panavia Tornado’s Maiden Flight
From Tornado to Husarz, NATO aviation has evolved from a European-designed Cold War striker to a fifth-generation fighter assembled across allied…
Midweek Sortie 33: CH-47 Chinook—The Heavy-Lift Legend That Carries EVERYTHING
From Vietnam’s jungle clearings to Afghanistan’s mountain valleys, the Chinook has gone wherever the fight demanded, lifting the loads no other…
Under Fire at Muwaffaq Salti and Remembering the Escalation in the Gulf of Tonkin
From Tonkin’s shadowed waters to Muwaffaq Salti’s burning runway, attacks on American forces again summon airpower, testing whether retaliation can…

July 2026

Midweek Sortie 32: Lockheed A12—The CIA's Blackbird Before the Blackbird
Before the SR-71 became an icon, the CIA’s secretive A-12 flew higher, faster, and deeper into danger, redefining reconnaissance at the edge of space…
Global Eye Replaces the E-3 and Remember the First Flight of the Boeing Model 299
From delivering bombs to delivering battlefield awareness: how large, long-range aircraft evolved into strategic force multipliers.
MQ-28 Ghost Bat Meets the Eagle II and Remembering when Mitchell Sank the Ostfriesland
From Mitchell’s bombers over Ostfriesland to the Ghost Bat beside the F-15EX, airpower raises the same question: what happens when a new machine proves…
Midweek Sortie 31: America Strikes Back—The Dolittle Raid
Months after Pearl Harbor, sixteen B-25 bombers launched from a carrier, carrying America’s defiance across Japan and proving the Pacific war had only…
The MQ-25 Stingray Demonstrator on the USS Nimitz and Looking Back at the Tondern Raid
From HMS Furious launching Camels at Tondern to MQ-25 testing aboard USS Nimitz, carrier aviation keeps reinventing how sea power reaches farther.
The B-2 Spirit Unleashes LRASM at Sea and Remembering Its First Flight
Born as a Cold War stealth revolution, the B-2 Spirit now proves its enduring reach over Australia, linking bomber legacy to Indo-Pacific deterrence.
Midweek Sortie 30: The Pegasus Takes Flight—Vertically
With four swiveling nozzles and Cold War urgency behind it, the Pegasus transformed the Harrier from strange experiment into the fighter that could rise…
Inside The F-35 Pilot Pipeline and Looking Back at the STS-70’s Signal Run
From Discovery’s relay satellite to Luke’s F-35 classrooms, airpower’s edge now lives in networks, training, and the invisible architecture behind every…
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