The Blue Angels announced last year that they will upgrade to Super Hornet soon Taken on Jun. 30, 2017, from inside the cockpit of a U.S. Navy F/A-18 “Legacy” Hornet,…
Airshows
Helicopters
Before starting astronaut training, a female pilot completes her last flight in the AH-1 Cobra
Maj. Jasmin Moghbeli, who has been chosen for the NASA Astronaut Candidate Class of 2017, has flown over 500 missions, 150 of those being combat missions, and logged over 1,200…
The innovative and potentially very effective flying wing design, in which the tail section and fuselage are deleted and all payload is carried in a thick wing, was employed by…
Airshows
LEGENDARY P-51B MUSTANG THAT FLEW UNDER THE EIFFEL TOWER TO PERFORM IN ENGLAND WITH F-22 RAPTOR
The P-51B Mustang “Berlin Express” will make a historic transatlantic flight from the U.S. to England The P-51B Mustang “Berlin Express” achieved legendary status in an epic World War II…
MiG Killers
The VFA-87 F/A-18E Fitter Killer (and additional information about the Syrian Su-22 shot down)
The two F/A-18E Super Hornet pilots “did everything they could to try to warn the Fitter away. They did a head-butt maneuver; they launched flares, but ultimately the Su-22 went…
The Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird, USAF serial number 61-7972, set four National Aeronautic Association and three Fédération Aéronautique Internationale speed records on its final flight on March 6, 1990 The Lockheed…
History
An RF-101C voodoo mission known as “Operation Sun Run” broke 3 transcontinental speed records
Two Voodoos had to fly the one-way trip from Los Angeles to New York, while two RF-101s had to make the roundtrip journey from Los Angeles to New York and…
Helicopters
An AH-64D attack helicopter used by the Army gives the iconic Apache additional badassery
Today, the U.S. Army’s attack helicopter fleet consists of a mixture of AH-64D and AH-64E model aircraft Taken on May 6, 2017, the super cool picture in this post features…
Carriers
IMPRESSIVE PHOTO SHOWS U.S. NAVY A-7 CORSAIR II ATTACK AIRCRAFT PERFORMING STRUCTURAL AND AERODYNAMIC TESTINGS
Structural and aerodynamic testings were often followed by trips to carriers to confirm land based results Taken in mid-70’s the interesting photo in this post features a U.S. Navy A-7…
Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets Jr., who led the B-29 Enola Gay on its mission to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, is the grandson of Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets…