‘Some components simply can’t be replaced, while others it would be cost-prohibitive and inefficient,’ Andy Burns, Naval Flight Officer American aircraft carriers at their peak are the queens of the…
Since the Cessna 172 Skyhawk production began in 1956, over 43,000 units have been built, primarily for flight schools where it is commonly used for Private, Commercial and Instrument Rating…
The odd photos in this post show an F-15 Eagle fighter jet carrying an AIM-54 Phoenix long-range air-to-air missile The Hughes AIM-54 Phoenix missile was the US Navy’s only long-range…
‘Seriously – getting an E-2 “up” and in position for launch makes moving everything else around the flight deck more difficult,’ Andy Burns, US Navy Flight Officer with under 1500…
No doubt, ROEs favoured the USAF F-15C crews. However, this did not mean that the US Navy F-14s did not fly fighter sweeps, as widely claimed: they did While the…
It was later determined that the mishap was caused by one of the four cables was not set to the correct F-14 Tomcat weight Dave “Bio” Baranek enjoyed a successful…
Despite protests from the Brazil’s Minister for Environment, the Brazilian Navy said on the evening of on Feb. 4, 2023 it had begun to sink the decommissioned aircraft carrier São…
Boeing built its first windowless jet airliners in the 1960s—and they flew as passenger-carrying jets from 1968 to 1992 Why are the passenger windows on aircraft so small? Would it…
The Columbia Model 107-II Vertol helicopter is the commercial model of the military variant, CH-46 Sea Knight Columbia Helicopters, the world’s leading heavy-lift helicopter OEM, MRO, and operator, announced today…
‘I went from flying a C-17 (heads up display, fly by wire, glass cockpit) to a 737 Next Gen (glass cockpit) and felt like I went back in time about…