Among 1st Air Cavalry Brigade helicopters involved in this deployment, there are CH-47 Chinooks, UH-60 Black Hawks, HH-60 Black Hawks, and AH-64 Apaches Taken at Chièvres Air Base, Belgium, the…
The LM-100J is the 17th different mission capability developed for the C-130J Super Hercules and it is an updated version of the L-100 cargo aircraft, which Lockheed Martin produced from…
The plane was given the nickname “Blackbird” after being painted all black. Before Gary Powers’ U-2 was shot down, work on a ground-breaking espionage plane had already started at Lockheed’s…
REMEMBERING JIM HUSTON, THE NAVAL FLIGHT OFFICER WHO FILMED THE AERIAL SEQUENCES OF “THE FINAL COUNTDOWN” CULT MOVIE
While in the Jolly Rogers, Jim Huston participated in making the movie “The Final Countdown,” filming several scenes with a camera in the back seat of the F-14 Jim Huston,…
HERE’S SKUNK WORKS QueSST X-PLANE, THE AIRCRAFT THAT WILL TURN THE SONIC BOOM INTO A SOFT “HEARTBEAT” THUMP
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works team, in partnership with NASA, is developing QueSST X-plane to solve one of the persistent challenges of supersonic flight – the sonic boom In partnership with…
A fire broke out in the engine of the USMC CH-53 during its emergency landing on an empty field in Oklahoma
No injuries were reported among the seven crewmembers aboard the CH-53 On Oct. 11, 2017, a U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) CH-53 helicopter from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 462 (HMH-462) made…
THE STORY OF CHRISTINE, THE LONGEST-SERVING F-14 TOMCAT IN THE U.S. NAVY
While F-14 BuNo. 159600 was participating in the Tomcat’s final cruise a bulkhead would blow out during routine maintenance and the aircraft would spend most of the next few months in the hangar earning…
The HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters and other equipment were projected to remain at Lakenheath until the beginning of June 2018 The relocation of HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters belonging to the…
Bell V-280 Valor Tiltrotor “turning” its rotors for the first time
The V-280 Valor will undergo a series of functional tests running all aircraft systems and flight controls, in preparation for first flight this fall The interesting video in this post…
Due to the facility’s emphasis on bombers in the 1940s and 1950s, the neighborhood gave it the nickname “the bomber plant,” which still lasts today The Air Force Plant 4…