The photos of this famous F-8 crash landing on the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt prove that an angled deck is better than the straight one. Taken on Oct. 21, 1961,…
The XB-1 is now set to complete its ongoing, extensive ground test program before heading to Mojave, California in 2021 for a flight test. Taken on Oct. 7, 2020, the…
The future wing would still feature 44 strike fighters as it does now, but the mix of Block 4 F-35C Lightning II fighters and Block III F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighters…
No one in the E-2C Hawkeye or on the deck was injured in the mishap. On Aug. 23, 2020, a US Navy E-2C Hawkeye command and control aircraft hit a captive air…
On Jun. 3, 1973, at the 1973 Paris Airshow, the flight crew on a Tu-144 attempted to perform an impressive steep climb maneuver to wow spectators, but they overstressed the…
Skiathos International Airport’s 5,341-foot runway is able to accommodate aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 757-200. Filmed by our friend Dafydd Phillips, the cool video in this post was taken…
The movie company obtained a modified B-25 from Tallmantz Aviation, with a camera in the tail gunner position. The interesting video in this post features Alan “Shoes” Mullen, one of…
‘As we were in the middle of Afghanistan with not enough fuel to get back to the ship, we put our emergency divert field in Pakistan on the nose,’ Michael…
The ship’s crew takes advantage of the pilot’s navigational error and makes sure their mistake does not go unnoticed by properly branding the visiting aircraft before departure. Actually, quite a…
The impressive video in this post was taken after a six-and-a-half-hour drive to Preswick airport in Scotland to capture the Antonov An-225. Filmed by our friend Dafydd Phillips on Aug.…