Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) confirmed that A Six seater Piper PA-23 Apache twin-engine light aircraft crashed minutes after taking off from the Plaridel Airport in Bulacan, killing the pilot, his co-pilot, and four passengers According to Eric Apolonio, CAAP spokesman, the Piper PA-23 Apache aircraft, with registry …

US Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq seven American personnel dead According to US Defence Department, a Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter is crashed near the town of al-Qaim, Anbar province, near the Syrian border that resulted in the death of 7 American military personal Another US helicopter …

 Caleb King Former Naval Academy football player killed in fighter jet crash Article originally appeared on link  Caleb King Former Naval Academy football player and Lt. Cmdr. Brice Johnson are the two aviator who died on Wednesday when their  fighter jet dual-seated F/A-18 Super Hornet crashed in shallow waters near Key West, Fla., …

on the  60th anniversary of the Ukrainian Air Force’s  An Airshow was organized at Sknyliv Airfield near Lviv, Ukraine. More than 10,000 spectators were present. At 12:52 pm, the Su-27 aircraft – flown by two experienced pilots entered a rolling maneuver with a downward trajectory at low altitude Having rolled upright once more …

The two most noted rocket sled human deceleration events in history are shown. First, on December 10, 1954, John Paul Stapp, facing forward, was accelerated to a speed of 632 mph, breaking the land speed record and making him “the fastest man on earth.” The sled was then slowed by …

An F-16 Fighting Falcon engine is tested in full afterburner at the Engine Test Cell Facility, commonly referred to as the “Hush House”. The General Electric F110-GE-100 turbofan produces close to 29,000 pounds of static thrust in afterburner, which can propel the Fighting Falcon to approximately twice the speed of …

The MiG-29 Fulcrum was Russia’s first fourth-generation jet fighter. In a sense, the MiG-29 combined fourth-generation engineering with third-generation hardware. 1,600 MiG-29 have been produced in total   MiG-29 start-up to shut down | Polish Air Force | In the 1990s, Western pilots had ample opportunity to fly MiG-29, as …

The  A-10 Thunderbolt II is a single-seat, twin turbofan engine, straight-wing jet aircraft. The A-10 was designed for close air support (CAS) of friendly ground troops, attacking armored vehicles and tanks, and providing quick-action support against enemy ground forces. It entered service in 1976 and is the only production-built aircraft …

The defection of Viktor Belenko took place on September 6, 1976, when Lieutenant Viktor Belenko of the Soviet Air Defence Forces flew his Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25P “Foxbat” aircraft from near Vladivostok in the Far East of the Soviet Union to Hakodate Airport in Hokkaido Prefecture of Japan. This huge, grey hulk …

Here are my five picks for the greatest U.S. Military aircraft. Whether these are necessarily the best aircraft in terms of technical performance may be questioned. Then again, that which is best and that which is great are frequently not the same. But for whatever reason, these Aircraft went on …