The East Midlands airport is where the preservation work started and where both of these Phantom aircraft were moved The start of two new preservation initiatives in the UK was…
Bell 360 Invictus’s next-generation rotorcraft is designed to provide attack, reconnaissance, and intelligence to shape the tactical environment and deliver operational overmatch in highly complex multi-domain operations. Bell Textron announced…
Although the wings should remain white due to worries about fuel temperature, Air France was given permission to paint the Concorde fuselage blue One of the most recognizable aircraft to…
The Goodwin Sands Dornier Do 17 hasn’t revealed its exact identity as of 2019 In both the bomber and reconnaissance roles, the Dornier Do 17 initially made an appearance as…
The Royal Malaysian Air Force F/A-18D Hornet joined Tetris Challenge on Sep. 27, 2019. The interesting pictures in this post feature armed forces and emergency service personnel from around the…
LeMay made the decision to turn to low-altitude incendiary operations after the high-altitude B-29 bombing with high-explosive ordnance produced negative results Although General Douglas MacArthur is regarded as one of…
At the time of the mishap, the Black Hawk was flying out to recover a soldier with a heat-related injury on the training ranges at Fort Polk, Louisiana. On the…
Airshows
Cool video Shows Warthog Belonging to USAF A-10 Demo Team in New, Striking Paint Scheme for 2020 Air Show Season
A-10 Thunderbolt II (80-0275/DM) received a custom paint job resembling a P-51 Mustang from the World War II era. The cool video in this post features 355th Equipment Maintenance Squadron…
Chuck Yeager hasn’t bailed out of an airplane since the day he was shot down over Germany when he was twenty… I’ve tried A! – I’ve tried B! – I’ve…
History
How Scott Crossfield defeated Chuck Yeager and became the first person to reach Mach 2 with the D-558-2 X-Plane
Scott Crossfield claimed that he “just dropped the hint to the Navy that wouldn’t it be great if they could whip Yeager’s ass and beat him to Mach 2!” The…