Both the Phantom and Tomcat platforms were delivered to Iran prior to the fall of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the ...

Tom Cruise doesn't have anything to do with it, but the Navy flight school featured in the "Top Gun" movies really exists.

The lifelong Palm Beach County resident is remembered for his love of family and tennis, and his decades as an orthopedist.

The F-5A was a testament to what happens when a defense contractor actually tries to restrain its impulses and focus on ...

FLYING is counting down to its 100th ILAFFT podcast episode. This week we revisit listener favorite No. 2: 'When Punching Out ...

In the early 1960s, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom arrived on the scene. Revolutionary for its time, the Phantom was fast, ...

Stretching back to WWII, the history of Russian jet development is intertwined with that of the United States. Here are the ...

On his missions, Doherty searched out Vietcong troop movements and called out targets for waiting F-4 Phantom jets. Beyond his year of Vietnam duty as a military pilot, he went on to a career as a ...

The term 4×4 means a four-wheel-drive vehicle. Technically, the first digit is the number of wheels and the second is the number that are driven, so a four-wheel-drive pickup truck is a 4×4 ...

Colonel Tomb was supposedly a double ace of the VPAF who scored anywhere from twelve to fourteen air-to-air kills against American warplanes. As the saying goes, “The first casualty of war is truth.” ...

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency via AP Downing was piloting an F-4C Phantom II aircraft during an armed night reconnaissance mission over the then-Democratic Republic of Vietnam in September ...