The KF-21: South Korea’s newest aircraft
South Korea’s first indigenously developed fighter jet, the KF-21, has been unveiled. This is a significant milestone for South Korea’s aviation and military sectors. The single-engine FA-50 Golden Eagle was…
South Korea’s first indigenously developed fighter jet, the KF-21, has been unveiled. This is a significant milestone for South Korea’s aviation and military sectors. The single-engine FA-50 Golden Eagle was…
‘We were going about 600 knots at 28,000 feet, so it was a loud boom, explosive decompression, and the airplane was damaged, a lot of glass in the cockpit, a…
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Here are some interesting facts about aviation listed by a user on Quora: During WWII, Russian fighter pilot T. Kuznetsov flew himself home after being shot down by stealing a…
As explained by a military expert user on Quora, German technology produced the V1, essentially the first “cruise missiles,” after the conflict. (The V2 was the first ICBM ever built.)…
The XB-70 Valkyrie AV/2 would only leave and land at Carswell AFB before being destroyed on June 8, 1966, as a result of an unintentional mid-air collision The interesting photo…
The video in this post features a crosswind landing performed by a massive Antonov An-124 and is definitely one of the craziest landings ever filmed. Taken on Mar. 13, 2019,…
The fly-by-wire systems currently used in space shuttles and in modern military and civilian aircraft were inspired by the F-8 DFBW system The F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire (DFBW) aircraft’s control system…
“Suddenly gray uniforms mixed with brown. I could see them hugging each other, dancing, and jumping. Americans were passing out cigarettes and chocolate,” Eddie Rickenbacker, World War I fighter ace.…
The F-14s’ spin issue made it difficult for them to engage in a dogfight successfully A line of post-Vietnam fighters began with the Grumman F-14 Tomcat and included the F-15…