The annual unfunded lists typically provide Capitol Hill with ammo for boosting the defense budget particularly to buy weapons made in the districts of lawmakers on the defense committees.
In the pantheon of military aviation history, few stories capture the imagination quite like the secretive operations of the US Air Force's 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron, better known as the "Red Eagles." Established in the late 1970s, the Red Eagles' mission was to train US pilots against Soviet MiGs using actual aircraft obtained through…