Sikorsky to install onto US Army Black Hawk advanced flight autonomy system Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, has received a $6 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency…
Helicopters
Cold War
The epic story of the KC-135 crew that crossed Vietnam’s DMZ and went into a dive to refuel a flamed out F-105
The boomer told the KC-135 pilot to push over into a dive – probably 10 to 20 degrees nose low and then talked him into position in front of the…
Hurricane Hunters fly Milton On Oct. 9, 2024 the Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters flew their last mission into Hurricane Milton, their eighth mission into the storm since Oct. 6,…
The Skyhawk For more than ten years, France was Israel’s primary supplier of weapons. However, by the middle of the 1960s, it was determined to acquire advanced and powerful US…
Accidents and equipments
Jockey-14, the AC-130H that ditched into the Indian Ocean after suffering a detonation of its 105mm cannon
The AC-130H that ditched into the Indian Ocean after the detonation of its 105mm cannon On Mar. 14, 1993, while en route from Kenya to Somalia, AC-130H (FY-serial 69-6576, nick-named…
Lieutenant Colonel William H. Rankin fell from 47,000 feet into “one of the most violent storms ever recorded on the East Coast,” parachuted over 65 miles in 40 minutes, and…
Above Mach 2.2, some of the airflows are bled from the fourth stage of the compressor and dumped into the augmentor inlet through six bleed-bypass tubes, circumventing the core of…
“The F-14 crew caught a detail in the weather briefing and flew that 95 knots pass into a shear-wind (opposed to the F-15A-pilot), and then did a few turns no…
The footage features USAF F-4 and RF-4 Phantom IIs flying extremely low with J79 noise (along with some spectacular sonic booms) and no background music The Noise You Hear is…
‘We were tasked by the JCS to fly a mission deep into the Indian Ocean/Persian Gulf to surveil the Soviet Fleet. At this time, the US 7th Fleet was in the…
