US Marines aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer recently sailed through the Strait of Hormuz with an armored vehicle strapped to the flight deck, ready to fight off drones and Iranian gunboats. Photos from a recent Strait of Hormuz transit by the US Navy amphibious assault ship USS Boxer …
Read More »Norway’s First Electric plane Alpha Electro G2 crashed into a lake
Norway’s first battery-powered Alpha Electro G2 airplane crashed into a lake yesterday, Reuters reports. While no one was harmed in the crash, the incident could be a set back for the country, which hopes to electrify all domestic flights by 2040. It’s still unclear why the electric plane, an Alpha Electro …
Read More »Video Features Last Flight Of SR-71 Blackbird Flying at Mach 3.2 Speed
The below video taken on Oct. 9, 1999 at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) shows the last ever flight of an SR-71 Blackbird. This flight took place at the Edwards AFB Open House Airshow.Thirty minutes after the take off the SR-71 had climbed to 80,100ft and was travelling at a speed …
Read More »Complicated Flight Scenes Delayed Top Gun: Maverick Release a Year: Paramount
Hollywood action film star Tom Cruise was filming for the upcoming Top Gun Sequel “Top Gun: Maverick”. on July 18, 2019, Tom Cruise Makes Surprise Appearance At Comic-Con with first ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Trailer. Top Gun: Maverick had an initial release date of July 12, 2019, but was pushed back almost …
Read More »U.S. Approves Sale Of 66 Advanced F-16 Block 70 Fighter Jet To Taiwan For $8 Billion
The Trump administration is moving forward with an $8 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan, American officials said Friday. The move is certain to further anger China at a time when a long-running trade war between Washington and Beijing has upended relations between the world’s two largest economies …
Read More »Crazy Guys Run A Gigantic Boeing 747 Rolls Royce RB211 Engine In Their Backyard
Here are couple of Crazy guys got their hands on a lone Boeing 747 Rolls Royce RB211 Engine and rigged it up in their backyard. To the astonishment of everyone they actually got it to work when they hooked it up. I’ve got to warn you things get pretty crazy …
Read More »Blue Angels F/A-18 Jets Midair Collision During Tight Diamond 360 Maneuver
U.S. Navy Blue Angels pilots broke out of formation and landed immediately after two of their jets touched while practicing a maneuver that puts them in extremely close proximity. Jets Nos. 1 and 3 made contactwhile training at their home base at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, said Lt. Michelle …
Read More »IAF Abhinandan’s Mig-21 Bison Downed Because Pakistan Had Jammed Communication
Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abinandan Varthaman whose Mig-21 Bison was shot down on February 27 during a dogfight with Pakistan Air Force jets – could not hear instructions asking him to turn back because his communications system was jammed by the enemy, according to Indian Air Force (IAF) and …
Read More »Can you live in Antarctica? Here’s Video Explains the Logistics of Living in Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth’s southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14,200,000 square kilometres (5,500,000 square miles), it is the fifth-largest continent and nearly …
Read More »Warthog Pit Stop: See USAF A-10 Thunderbolt II Undergoing Maintenance
On July 2, 2019, 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs at HILL AIR FORCE BASE posted interesting photos that feature A-10 Warthog attack aircraft undergoing maintenance in an Ogden Air Logistics Complex maintenance hangar at Hill AFB. The Ogden Air Logistics Complex, with headquarters at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, …
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