‘He told me he’d debated doing it for about 10 seconds, but being a Marine meant you were compelled to do stuff like that,’ Tim Hibbetts, former Naval Aviator Maverick:…
The first dual-control Panavia Tornado GR1T in its original color scheme
The sunset/night photoshoot featured not only the Panavia Tornado GR1T ZA319 but also the Hawk T1 XX154 and the English Electric P.1 WG763 The Panavia Tornado GR1T, ZA319, Hawk XX154,…
The day Tom Cruise saved his co-star Elisabeth Shue from being killed by spinning helicopter blades
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…