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Europe’s First Seat on the Artemis Horizon and STS-71 Mission Remembered
From Shuttle-Mir’s post-Cold War handshake to Artemis’ European pilot, spaceflight keeps turning political alliances into missions written across the…
Jul 1
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June 2026
Midweek Sortie 28: The Fighter That Vanished Before Dawn—Inside the YF-23 Black Widow II
Before the F-22 ruled the skies, the YF-23 promised a darker, faster, quieter future — then disappeared into aviation’s most haunting what-if.
Jun 30
New Photos Expose a Stealth Bomber’s Silent Airbrakes and remembering the First USAF Reconnaissance Mission of the Korean War
From Korea’s improvised airpower to the B-21’s deliberate design, America’s lesson is clear: tomorrow’s crisis must be answered long before the first…
Jun 30
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X-59 Enters the Supersonic Sky and Look Back at the Berlin Airlift
From Berlin’s lifeline corridors to the quiet edge of Mach 1, aviation has always been at its most powerful when it turns barriers into bridges.
Jun 25
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Midweek Sortie 27: Afterburners — The Fire Behind Supersonic Power
When raw thrust was not enough, afterburners turned jet exhaust into controlled fire, giving fighters the violent speed needed to intercept, escape, and…
Jun 24
Boeing Tests the KC-46A’s Next-Gen Vision System and Remember When the First GRAB Satellite Was Launched
From orbital ears listening for hidden radar to digital eyes guiding fuel across the sky, both GRAB and RVS 2.0 show how airpower evolves when machines…
Jun 23
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U.S. Nuclear Expansion to Europe and the Superfortress Bombing of Japan
From the Pacific skies of the B-29 to NATO’s nuclear shield over Europe, airpower still turns distance into deterrence and reach into a warning.
Jun 18
Midweek Sortie 26: Edwards AFB—From Sonic Boom to Stealth
From Chuck Yeager’s sonic boom to today’s stealth and autonomous test programs, Edwards Air Force Base remains America’s desert proving ground for the…
Jun 17
Sea Guardian Hunts the Silent Depths and Remember the Bekaa Valley War
From Bekaa Valley RPVs exposing missile defenses to SeaGuardian sonobuoys hunting submarines, unmanned aircraft prove modern battles begin with sensors…
Jun 16
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The Ghost Bat’s First Flight in the US and When Pioneer 10 crossed Neptune’s Orbit
From Pioneer 10’s deep-space pathfinding to MQ-28’s allied autonomous flights, machines go first—testing distance, risk, and new frontiers before humans…
Jun 11
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Midweek Sortie 25: Fear the Bones—The Skull-and-Crossbones Legacy of the Jolly Rogers
From Corsairs to Tomcats to Super Hornets, the Jolly Rogers skull-and-crossbones became more than a squadron patch — it became naval aviation’s pirate…
Jun 10
MQ-20 Avenger Under Lightning’s Command and When Gemini IV Learned to Walk in Space
Gemini IV proved that astronauts could operate beyond the spacecraft; the F-35/MQ-20 test suggests fighter pilots may soon operate beyond the cockpit.
Jun 9
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