‘Black humor and a lack of restraint are common in the community when it comes to airplane nicknames, so I reckon the F-117 didn’t come off too badly overall,’ John…
‘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 campaign was simple: you could collect points from Pepsi labels by buying Pepsi products. Once you collected points, you could claim prizes like t-shirts, sunglasses, or, for 7 million…
Buddy Brown (Buddy is not a nickname; it’s his real name) was one of a handful of men in the entire world to be picked to fly the U-2 and…
The Hind has been sold to 40 countries and, no, it’s not a joke. The photos in this post feature a Mi-24 attack helicopter in US Coast Guard colors The…
‘We joke that the A-10 is really a single-engine aircraft, with half an engine on each side,’ Lynn Taylor, former A-10 Warthog pilot The A-10 is the first US Air…
Upon landing and subsequent pilot deployment of the SR-71 Blackbird chute (which is Orange), the chute deployed as normal, and also a quantity of White Items flew all over the…
Even the most experienced pilots still get motion sickness once in a while If you’ve ever wondered whether or not pilots get motion sickness, the short answer to the question…
He did take the US Army helo and land in Johnny Cash’s yard. June Carter came out and yelled, “Sweet Jesus, they come to us up the road and now…
‘AT-ATs have a lot in common with tanks,’ Lynn Taylor, a former A-10 Warthog pilot The All Terrain Armored Transport, or AT-AT walker, from the Star Wars universe, is a…