In 1987 Tom Cruise saved his co-star Elisabeth Shue’s life by stopping her from walking into a spinning helicopter blade on the set of the comedy-drama movie Cocktail. In 1987…
On the same flight, pilots from the Royal Netherlands Air Force accrued 9,000 flight hours on the CH-47 Chinook
Two aviators from the Royal Netherlands Air Force’s 302nd Squadron achieved 9,000 flight hours on the CH-47 Chinook helicopter on the same flight out of Fort Hood on Jun. 2,…
The C-141 StarLifter, the first aircraft to return Vietnamese Prisoners of War to the US
Despite the fact that C-141 StarLifter aircraft had conducted many military and humanitarian missions, none were more important than the Hanoi Taxi mission President John F. Kennedy declared August 23,…
Former Boeing Employee explains why the company didn’t develop the 757 instead of the older 737
‘As a testament of how good the plane was, most of the Boeing 757’s built were still in service as late as 2018,’ Glenn Tomchik, former Boeing employee who worked…
Marta Bohn-Meyer, the only female crew member to fly in the SR-71 Blackbird
Congresswoman Beverly Byron was the only female woman to have flown on the legendary SR-71 Blackbird; she did it as a VIP guest in 1985 The photos in this post…
Of the 1,574 747s built up to December of 2022 (when the final 747 left Boeing’s Everett Factory), somewhere between 22 and 28, depending on what you want to count,…
‘Unfortunately, on the day Vega 31 would be taken out of the sky, the [EA-6B] Prowlers were grounded due to weather. The decision was made for the F-117s to fly…
After being struck by an 88mm shell, a B-17 held its formation and allowed the survivors to safely bail out
As seen from the right waist of an accompanying B-17, this 463rd Bomb Group Flying Fortress received a direct hit beneath the pilot’s feet from what is believed to have…
Remembering the deadliest incident in aviation history: When a KLM Boeing 747 Collided with a Pan Am Boeing 747 on the tarmac at the Tenerife Airport
Despite both aircraft attempting to avoid each other, with the Pan Am Boeing 747 veering sharply onto the grass and the KLM Boeing 747 pulling up, they were unable to…
Ford Aircraft Carrier John F. Kennedy to Deliver to the US Navy one year later
According to Fiscal Year 2024 budget, John F. Kennedy’s (CVN-79), the next Ford-class aircraft carrier, will now deliver to the US Navy in 2025, one year later than the service’s…