The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) is an electromagnetic thruster under development for possible use in spacecraft propulsion. It uses radio waves to ionize and heat a propellant. Then a magnetic field accelerates the resulting plasma to generate thrust (plasma propulsion engine). It is one of several types of …

Two Russian Air Force Su-34 fighter-bombers collided Friday during a training mission midair 44 km off the coast over the Sea of Japan leavingtwo crew members dead and another one still missing, officials said. See Details: Two Russian Su-34 fighter jet collided midair over sea of japan The Defense Ministry …

It was a routine takeoff for Emery Worldwide Flight 17, a domestic cargo plane making its way to Ohio, on February 16, 2000. Seconds later, that illusion was shattered as the plane began to violently tilt and rotate. Emery Worldwide Flight 17 was a regularly scheduled domestic cargo flight, flying …

A bird strike or bird ingestion or bird aircraft strike hazard (BASH)—is a collision between an airborne animal and a manmade vehicle, especially an aircraft. The term is also used for bird deaths resulting from collisions with structures such as power lines, towers and wind turbines In the Video below …

Air Force’s official announcement of the new F-35A Lighting II Demonstration Team on December 4, 2018, demo pilot Capt. Andrew Olson, callsign “Dojo”, was captured in the video during what may be a partial practice session or a quick flyover at Luke AFB near Phoenix, Arizona. If anyone was wondering …

Air-to-air with Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-34. Mil.ru. via Wikimedia Commons Two Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-34 military planes collided midair following a technical problem . One airplane crashed into the Japanese Sea, the other was able to reach the airbase on one engine.  The 2 occupants ejected. At around …

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown is an upcoming combat flight action video game. For Play Station 4 & Xbox One Ace Combat will be released on January 18, 2019, and for Microsoft Windows, it will release on February 1, 2019. The latest version of long-running video game franchise Ace Combat …

Rusli Khusmin, 42, a fisherman from Indonesia shows his GPS Navigator which he used to record the coordinates of where he believes Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 crashed into the Sumatra Indonesia Sea during a news conference on January 16, 2019 in Subang Jaya outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.(Getty) A group of Indonesian …

A “devastating” plane crash at the Shoreham Airshow which killed 11 men was caused by the pilot’s “serious negligence”, a court has heard. The pilot, Andrew Hill, was flying the Hawker Hunter too low when he lost control flying over the A27 during the Shoreham airshow in 2015 The fighter …

An explosion struck near a patrol of the U.S.-led coalition in the northern Syrian town of Manbij, killing and wounding more than a dozen people, a Syrian war monitoring group and a local town council said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 16 people were killed including nine …