Notably, during the very first day of the war, two F/A-18 pilots were credited with shooting down two Iraqi MiG-21s. The engagement took less than one minute, ending with the deployment of AIM-7 ...
I'm in charge of training the entire squadron, and especially the junior officers in it. As an F-18 pilot, I could have been placed in California or Japan — the only other F-18 bases — but ...
However, in the case of the F-18, the pilot isn't wearing a $400,000 helmet displaying flight-critical information. The F-18 pilot pictured here gets bucked just a little bit, but doesn't have ...