In December 2017, a blurry photograph of an Air Force F-4 Phantom flying upside down in an intercept mission on a Russian ...

and fly the McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18 “Hornet” strike fighter. Gravity and other forces conspire against conventional flight, but they are positively Machiavellian about inverted flight.

IMAGINE YOU’RE FLYING YOUR ... scenarios, fighter jets are authorized to use missiles.“You’re almost a machine at that point,” Papp told Terri. “It all comes down to muscle memory.