The Gerald R. Ford-class is the replacement for Enterprise and Nimitz-class aircraft carriers Aircraft carriers continue to be the centerpiece of America’s Naval forces necessary for operating forward. In times…
Ford re-drew the blue-prints for the Merlin, making it more suitable for mass production, and by 1944, over 400 engines a week were flowing out of the plants The Rolls…
‘He told me he’d debated doing it for about 10 seconds, but being a Marine meant you were compelled to do stuff like that,’ Tim Hibbetts, former Naval Aviator Maverick:…
The sunset/night photoshoot featured not only the Panavia Tornado GR1T ZA319 but also the Hawk T1 XX154 and the English Electric P.1 WG763 The Panavia Tornado GR1T, ZA319, Hawk XX154,…
In 1987 Tom Cruise saved his co-star Elisabeth Shue’s life by stopping her from walking into a spinning helicopter blade on the set of the comedy-drama movie Cocktail. In 1987…
Two aviators from the Royal Netherlands Air Force’s 302nd Squadron achieved 9,000 flight hours on the CH-47 Chinook helicopter on the same flight out of Fort Hood on Jun. 2,…
Despite the fact that C-141 StarLifter aircraft had conducted many military and humanitarian missions, none were more important than the Hanoi Taxi mission President John F. Kennedy declared August 23,…
‘As a testament of how good the plane was, most of the Boeing 757’s built were still in service as late as 2018,’ Glenn Tomchik, former Boeing employee who worked…
Congresswoman Beverly Byron was the only female woman to have flown on the legendary SR-71 Blackbird; she did it as a VIP guest in 1985 The photos in this post…
Of the 1,574 747s built up to December of 2022 (when the final 747 left Boeing’s Everett Factory), somewhere between 22 and 28, depending on what you want to count,…