‘I realized that Minneapolis/St. Paul airport was shut down on that day due to heavy snow, and further found out that MSP is not an A380 Airport…’ The Airbus A380…
QRA launches were frequent to intercept Argentinian Boeing 707 or Lockheed Electra Elint aircraft, however, sometimes other aircraft blundered into the Falkland Island Control Zone… First flown in November 1985,…
The key structural element of an F-14 is its wing box. It is an electron beam welded titanium box that keeps the wings firmly attached to the rest of the…
HMS Queen Elizabeth has been kitted out with specially-designed LED lighting on her flight deck to aid nighttime landings Taken on Oct. 3, 2018, the amazing pictures in this post…
Captain Sam “Slammer” Richardson forced the MiG-29 pilot to call “Knock it off.” Afterward, he said the Fulcrum pilot could only talk about how he lost the fight against the…
‘He was flabbergasted. All four flight attendants pampered him and told me his name was Lloyd, so I patterned all my PAs to him,’ Boeing 727 flight engineer and airline…
Older aircraft did not have a launch bar integrated into the nose gear; instead, a wire rope called a catapult bridle was attached to the aircraft and the catapult shuttle……
The Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet – Rafale M’s competitor – already demonstrated the ski-jump capability in December 2020 at NAS Patuxent River in the US. Dassault aims to bring its…
The Royal Canadian Navy helped solve a shortage of tea on board HMS Queen Elizabeth. The Royal Canadian Navy helped solve a shortage of tea on board HMS Queen Elizabeth,…
Due to the American noise regulations, Braniff Airways Concorde supersonic airliners were limited to Mach 0.95 yet they flew at slightly above Mach 1. The Aérospatiale/British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) Concorde…