George Duncan’s ramp strike has been used in several films including Men of the Fighting Lady, Midway, and The Hunt for Red October Taken in 1951, the shocking video in this…
Helicopters
Video of a massive C-5M Super Galaxy offloading the U.S. Army Apache Helicopters at Ramstein Air Base
The C-5M Super Galaxy is specially built to transport massive military equipment, capable of carrying six Apache helicopters, two M1A Abrams tanks, or 250,000 pounds of relief supplies A large…
History
Koga’s Zero, a captured A6M that assisted in making the F6F Hellcat the most powerful carrier fighter of WWII
The A6M2 Model 21, often known as “Koga’s Zero,” was arguably the most significant Zero captured during World War II and the one that contributed most to the Allied victory…
“The F-4 Phantom was the last plane that looked like it was made to kill somebody. It was a beast. It could go through a flock of birds and kick…
History
The Luftwaffe’s Lippisch P.13a Mach 2.6 experimental delta wing interceptor is the weirdest machine ever created
However, tests of wind-tunnel models in the DVL high-speed wind tunnel revealed that the Lippisch P.13a design showed exceptional stability into the Mach 2.6 range, even though it never left…
VA-163 went through 3 A-4 Skyahwk CAG jets on the ’67 cruise… 150132 was lost on Aug. 20, and 149959 went down over Hanoi, on Oct. 26. 152003 took the…
History
The AC-130 Gunship in action during Operation Desert Storm: The Spectre over the Highway of Death
Due to the magnitude of the destruction wrought that night, the stretch of road that Haddad and his team had fired on became known as the “Highway of Death.” The…
Accidents and equipments
HOW US AIR FORCE AIRMEN ASSISTED RAF 51 SQUADRON IN REPAIRING THE RC-135’AIRSEEKER’ LANDING GEAR.
The landing gear was being retracted. It, on the other hand, continued to bounce around and refused to lock The 55th Wing marked another historic milestone when a Royal Air…
Carriers
Video features Naval Aviators who saved E-2C Hawkeye in 2016 describing response to carrier landing cable break
Lt. Cmdr. Kellen Smith and Lt. Matthew Halliwell were two of three pilots aboard a US Navy VAW-123 Screwtops E-2C Hawkeye that was landing on the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier…
Gen. Franks flew MH-60 Pave Hawk tail number 009 during Operation Allied Force, rescuing Lt. Col. Darrell Patrick “Dale” Zelko F-117 Nighthawk pilot downed in enemy territory. An MH-60G Pave…