A USMC McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, crashed near Havelock, Craven County, North Carolina, apparently after a technical malfunction. Aircraft went down around 6:15 pm local time. The pilot ejected safely from the aircraft, according to Marine officials. The pilot is being taken to …
Read More »1,500-plus U.S. Marine Corps Aircraft have suffered Bird strikes in the past 15 years
A Shocking report revealed that Since the fiscal year 2004, the Marine Corps has recorded roughly 1,540 bird or animal strike incidents. Less than 30 of those incidents resulted in serious damage or a mishap classification between A to C, according to Marine spokesman Capt. Christopher Harrison. On May 7 …
Read More »309 AMARG Could be the Second Largest AIR FORCE In The World
The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), often called The Boneyard currently stores more than 4,400 aircraft and 13 aerospace vehicles which Could make it the Second Largest AIR FORCE In The World (with USAF ranking at number one). It is a United States Air Force aircraft and missile …
Read More »Bomb Markings on A-10 Thunderbolt II Attack Aircraft that participated in Operation Inherent Resolve
A victory marking or kill marking or kill mark) is a symbol applied in stencil or decal to the side of a military aircraft to denote an aerial victory achieved by the aircraft’s pilot. The use of victory markings originated during World War II and frequently took the form of …
Read More »India-Pakistan Patch-War: Here’s All the uniform patches of PAF – IAF Airstrike made so far
on 26 February 2019 India Airforce conducted a Balakot airstrike. Indian warplanes crossed the de facto border in the disputed region of Kashmir and dropped bombs in the vicinity of the town of Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The following day, on February 27 Pakistan Airforce retaliated and …
Read More »The Story of RAF Tornado that made an emergency landing at the home of the top-secret F-117 Base
Exercise Red Flag is a two-week advanced aerial combat training exercise with the purpose of offering realistic air-combat training for military pilots and other flight crew members from the U.S., NATO, and other allied countries. Each year, four to six Red Flag exercises are held at Nellis Air Force Base, …
Read More »Video Features The SR-71 Blackbird Plane That Holds SIX World Records
No reconnaissance aircraft in history has operated globally in more hostile airspace or with such complete impunity than the SR-71, the world’s fastest jet-propelled aircraft. The Blackbird’s performance and operational achievements placed it at the pinnacle of aviation technology developments during the Cold War. The interesting video in this post …
Read More »That Time F-14A Tomcat fighter jet split into two pieces
on Jul. 11, 1994 a VF-51 Screaming Eagles F-14A Tomcat BuNo 162602 Suffered a ramp strike upon landing aboard the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) A ramp strike is when an aircraft coming to land aboard an aircraft carrier impacts the rear of the carrier, also called the ramp, below the …
Read More »A Sixty-year-old B-52H Bomber Nicknamed “Wise Guy” resurrected from the Bone Yard
On May 13, 2019, for the second time in U.S. Air Force history, the service has brought a B-52H Stratofortress bomber out of storage Boneyard and delivered it to an operational unit The 307th Bomb Wing (BW) brought a previously decommissioned B-52 Stratofortress to Barksdale Air Force Base (AFB), Louisiana. …
Read More »Russian News portal claims that Poland Staged MiG-29 Crashes to buy New F-35 fighter jets
On April 6, 2019, a Russian News portal fort-russ.com published an article titled “ IN DEPTH: Poland’s Staged MiG Crashes – NATO Plan For Sales Of Inferior U.S F-35″ In the article author Alexander Shtorm & Bill French claims that Poland might have Staged MiG-29 Fighter jets Crashes to the …
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