There were still a lot of hostilities at the time, so the pilots did what is called a falling leaf landing at Herat airport ‘First flight in Afghanistan, 2002. It…
Humor
The Vulcan to the Sky charity has been unable to meet the fundraising deadline to raise the £2.2m needed to progress plans to build The Vulcan Experience at Doncaster Sheffield…
History
The hair-raising low-level attack on Ahmad al-Jaber airfield by l’Armée de L’Air Jaguars on the first day of Operation Desert Storm
“I didn’t think anything like this could exist. The intensity of the response coming from the ground was incredible,” l’Armée de L’Air Jaguar pilot. A dozen SEPECAT Jaguar A strike-fighters…
History
On the Eighth Air Force’s 80th anniversary, the USAF B-1B, F-15Es, and RAF F-35B conducted joint flypasts
A RAF F-35B Lightning from RAF Marham along with a USAF B-1B Lancer and an F-15 Strike Eagle aircraft for multiple flypasts in the UK on February 1, 2022, to…
Helicopters
Tail cracks on CH-148 Cyclones as a result of localized stresses from ESM and Satcom Antenna
The Royal Canadian Air Force has determined that cracks that appeared in the tail booms of its CH-148 fleet were due to local stresses caused by the equipment installed there…
History
The flight engineer stations on the B-36 and Concorde both included several dials, switches, and buttons. However, only the Peacemaker had levers
In the past, a flight engineer’s position was used in the design and construction of the majority of bigger aircraft, both military and civil A flight engineer (FE), commonly referred…
History
2 North Vietnamese MiG-17 pilots bombed the first US Navy ships damaged by airstrikes since the end of WWII
On April 19, 1972, the threat of an enemy aerial attack on US Navy ships off the coast of North Vietnam really materialized US Navy ships operating off the coast…
History
Jimmy Abbotts, a Canadian pilot in WWII, bailed out of his damaged Spitfire, and his parachute was stuck on the radio mast
It was not uncommon for airmen to strike or become hooked on their aircraft during the Second World War It was not uncommon for airmen to strike or become hooked…
Carriers
The F-35C Lighting II that crashed Yesterday fell off USS Carl Vinson flight deck into South China Sea
USS Carl Vinson resumed flight operations shortly after the crash of the F-35C Lightning II According to a statement released on Jan. 25, 2022, by the US 7th Fleet, the…
Is it accurate to say that the Space Shuttle smelt awful when ground crews arrived to clean and unload it after a flight? During the 30 years of the Space…