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

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

a note about the number-crunching methods for the Vietnam air war is in order: all of these American aces flew as members of two-man crews on F-4 Phantom IIs, reflecting the emergence of air-to ...

Entertaining crowds since 1953, the United States Air Force Thunderbirds are one of the world’s best known aerial demonstrations teams, dazzling ...

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

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 ...

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

A Navy spec carrier-capable multi-role jet that carried more bombs than quad-engine bombers from World War II, the Skyhawk pulled some real heavy lifting during the Vietnam War. A versatile and ...