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Thunder in the Heavens: A Brief History of the Aircraft of the USAF Thunderbirds
Entertaining crowds since 1953, the United States Air Force Thunderbirds are one of the world’s best known aerial demonstrations teams, dazzling ...
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US Air Force uses damaged aircraft to restore F-35 to combat-ready status
Franken-bird”: The US Air Force has used sections from two damaged aircraft to restore an F-35 to combat-ready status.
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Restored ‘Franken-bird’ F-35 returns to flight
After more than year of work, engineers and maintenance experts from the US Air Force and Lockheed Martin successfully flew a ...
First-ever fully operational F-35 rebuilt from separate crash casualties
Combining major structures from separate F-35s to build a fully operational plane is an Air Force first. Both these damaged jets would've otherwise ended up as ...
I Was Supposed to Be on the 1961 Flight That Crashed, Killing the U.S. Skating Team
There are incidents that divide life into a before and after. Witnessing American Airlines Flight 5342 explode into the Potomac Wednesday night brought back visions of Sabena Flight 548 carrying the U ...