The SB>1 Defiant helicopter demonstrated mission-relevant cargo capacity by lifting a 5,300-pound Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System training load. As the video in this post shows, the Sikorsky-Boeing SB>1 Defiant…
The commonality between the UH-1Y Venom and AH-1Z Viper aircraft enabled critical component supply chains to remain active during AH-1Z production for the USMC. Bell has restarted UH-1Y Venom helicopter…
“For 15 years (1977-92) sitting 24-hour air defense – codenamed Zulu – alert was a fact of life for an Eagle Driver at Bitburg,” Doug Dildy, former F-15 Driver “For…
A designated Marine Corps F/A-18 aviator must complete nearly four years of training The largest F/A-18 Hornet squadron in the U.S. Marine Corps is Fighter Attack Training Squadron (VMFAT) 101…
‘We landed in a soybean field and sank… The field was plowed and the dirt very loose…,’ Chris Ishmael, former US Army CH-47 Chinook flight engineer. On Jan. 5, 2021,…
When the Dornier Do 217 used the radio-guided, free-fall “Fritz X” weapon to sink the Italian battleship Roma, it made aviation history by being the first military aircraft to use…
Tech. Sgt. Wesley Walker, an aircraft armament systems technician with the 354th Maintenance Squadron, was given the opportunity to view the mission from a vantage point he had never experienced…
The T-12 Cloudmaker was twice as big and weighed 44,000 lb overall. It was based on the British-designed 22,000lb (10,000kg) Grand Slam created by British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis during…
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The story of the female USAF pilot who followed in her mother’s footsteps and trained to be a C-17 pilot
Today, only slightly more than 5% of LaRivee’s job area is occupied by women, compared to her mother’s rarity as a female cadet in 1976 According to Senior Airman Sam…
A US Army Black Hawk helicopter made an emergency landing at Charles de Gaulle Square, Bucharest, tearing down two public street lights and stopping traffic but making no casualties. A…