This my friends is the definition of a role model. Not a female role model, not a Black role model, but simply an American Role model. Bless her!

I'm sorry, but the F-14 won't defeat the F-15C anywhere on paper.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook…

IAF F-15 thinks flight with 1.5 wings is pretty amateurish

That's quite the payload on the Mirage. It's like opening your coat a bit to reveal a sidearm. "Are we going to have a problem here fellas....?"

Nice story, but not likely the Sea Shadow. I'm just finishing 'Skunk Works' by Ben Rich, former head of Skunk Works, and he has part of a chapter dedicated to the Sea Shadow and its development and testing. Among the things he notes, other than Kelly Johnson's (in)famous 15th rule ("Starve before doing business with…

Vote: Weather Underground

This isn't about the A-10s so much as it is about the F-35.

Did anyone else play JetFighter II: Advanced Tactical Fighter back in the early 90's? That game is the root cause of my love affair with the YF-23.

TU-4 vs B-29...

The B-52 of the seas.

I think it looks like more of a puma.

Meanwhile in GTA IV...

Maybe you should shut the fuck up?

There is just something epic about the XB-70. Its perfect!

By the time the two XB-70's were completed in 1964, it had been canceled as a weapons program for three years; they were completed solely for the purposes of research into supersonic flight (and as such, the aircraft were operated jointly with NASA at Dryden from 1966-68; check that, the second one produced crashed…

I have an irrational love for the Valkyrie. Gorgeous

*raises hand*

Can we build a modern version of the XB-70? Please?