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By Military Team 3rd January 2020

… with Iraqi Security Forces personnel. In retaliation, US fighter aircraft attacked five facilities in Iraq and Syria … RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, UK, is home to the 48th Fighter Wing, operating Boeing F-15C/D Eagles and Boeing F-15E Strike … multirole variable-geometry fighters from the air arm’s 8th Tactical Fighter Base. Iranian military establishments …

By Michel Mandl 21st November 2019

… radar, which allowed for carrying more fuel. This Mach 2 fighter had to be converted to a fighter-bomber; quite a … March 1972, four squadrons were operational. The 1st and 8th Sqns were based at Bierset (Liège), both in the … flight. The 2nd and 42nd Sqns had their home in the 2nd Wing at Florennes, one in the fighter-bomber role, the other …

By ANDREW THOMAS 30th December 2019

… and moved to Treizennes, Belgium, as part of the 10th Wing during late August that year. Offensive patrols over the … operational type for 40 Squadron was the F.E.8 ‘pusher’ fighter, one of which is seen being examined by French … two raids a night. Following the breakout in November, the 8th Army began a race across the desert, with the bombers of …

31st October 2019

… du Toit was one of South Africa’s outstanding wartime fighter leaders who fought in Abyssinia, the North African desert and Italy, ending the war with his Spitfire Wing in Austria. He was commissioned into the South African … engaged in ground attack operations to aid Montgomery’s 8th Army in Italy and Yugoslavian partisans. During November, …

By Frédéric Lert 14th October 2019

… the Alpha Jets of the École de l’Aviation de Chasse (EAC, Fighter Aviation School) in Tours. There seems little doubt … strake and enlarged tail. The aircraft boasted very high wing loading for good manoeuvrability at low altitude. Four … over the future of Phase IV and its 8e Escadre de Chasse (8th Fighter Wing) Alpha Jets in Cazaux. According to some …

17th October 2019

… but notice my red bird”. While Germany’s highest-scoring fighter ace was not afraid of being seen, most other airmen … 1943 were increasingly left in their bare metal. The first 8th Air Force B-17s that arrived in England in 1942 did sport … and it opted to transition almost all of its fixed-wing aircraft to an overall light grey scheme. The exception …

30th August 2019

… Tokyo. The unit fell under the command of the 35 th Fighter Bomber Wing. While trying to obtain a clearer picture of the ground … resistance. Despite this, on the evening of June 27, the 8th detached four RF-80s 680 miles (1,094km) west to Itazuke …

By JAMES KIGHTLY 8th August 2019

… meant defence was impossible. A V1 as seen from a pursuing fighter’s attack position. JAMES KIGHTLY COLLECTION Therefore … was made by the use of RAF Bomber Command and the US 8th Air Force to destroy the Nazi development and testing … of unbalancing the gyroscope by putting a fighter’s wing below the bomb’s while flying in close formation was a …

By RICHARD PAVER 8th August 2019

… the controls — wearing, incidentally, an authentic wartime fighter pilot’s Mae West, kindly loaned by John Romain for … Mustang whose restoration he led “We had a fairly decent wing with IDF43, but it did have some damage. Robs had also … of all the official documents that list all the surplus 8th Air Force Mustangs that went to Sweden after the war.” …

18th July 2019

… Lt Gen Ellie ‘Buck’ G Shuler, Jr when he was serving as 8th Air Force commander. Via Lt Gen Ellie ‘Buck’ G Shuler, Jr … 9th Bombardment Squadron (BS), part of the 7th Bombardment Wing (BW), at Carswell AFB in Texas, flying the B-52F. From a … training he was assigned to F-4C-equipped 558th Tactical Fighter Squadron (TFS) which had been at Cam Rahn Air Base in …

18th July 2019

… US BOMBER SPECIAL Of all the 8th Air Force Bomb Groups to fly from England in World War … Anglia and more than 100 were eventually built. Some had fighter aircraft stationed, while others were prepared for … systems being knocked out, a large hole in the starboard wing, and two engines out of action. On September 10 the next …

1st August 2019

… Pathfinder Force: a single continuous tour of 45 sorties. Fighter Command: Day Fighters, normal maximum 200 hours. … shot down one Me 109. He was also in a formation, which on 8th July seriously damaged a chemical factory at Bethune. … BRANCH Seen here as a group captain, Phil Robinson was a wing commander when he was bestowed the DFC three times for …

28th June 2019

… little idea what the Soviet Union was creating in terms of fighter aircraft design, so the US had to make as much … and Warsaw Pact/Communist units from 1949. The swept-wing MiG-15 would constantly be a problem for the … at Yonpo AB (K-27). The first missions were in support of 8th Army troops in mountainous terrain, ten miles southwest …

20th June 2019

… to be escaping through the fuselage adjacent to the port wing root. After discussion, it was decided to divert to the … D: May 3 N: US Marine Corps T: F/A-18D Hornet This fighter had an engine bay fire during a post-maintenance … Force T: F-14A Tomcat S: 3-6003 During a sortie from the 8th Tactical Air Base at Esfahan/ Shahid Beheshti Airport, …

By Ben Dunnell 11th July 2019

… Impatient Virgin in a two-ship Historic Flight Foundation fighter formation. JEREMY DWYER-LINDGREN Pictured at 2007’s … Virgin , P-51B 42-106638 flew during wartime with the 8th Air Force’s 367th Fighter Squadron, part of the 361st … in June this year. RICHARD PAVER “I touched the right wing and went forward into the runway. I lost my left foot — …