The Syrian military has lost over 110 warplanes during the nearly eight-year-long conflict inside Syria The following infographic shows just how chaotic and dangerous Syria’s skies have become by providing an overview of estimated aircraft losses. According to Statista Charts, the Syrian military lost a total of 111 warplanes during …
Read More »Watch: Passenger HOG-TIED for four hours mid-flight after ‘violent’ rampage
PLANE passengers were forced to hog-tie a fellow passenger who went on a rampage during a flight from Bangkok to Russia Shocking images from the flight to Russia shows the man, believed to be 26 years old, lying on his front on the aircraft galley floor with his hands behind …
Read More »NASA’S New VASIMR PLASMA ENGINE could reach MARS in less than 40 days
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 …
Read More »Emery Worldwide Flight 17: A Routine Plane Takeoff Quickly Turns into a Disaster
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 …
Read More »Rare Footage of Bird Crashing Into T-38 Talon Cockpit at 400 miles
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 …
Read More »Watch: USAF F-35 demonstration team perform some never-before-seen maneuvers
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 …
Read More »Ace Combat 7 Skies Unknown: All Aircraft Profile Videos
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 …
Read More »Fisherman claims he watched MH370 crash and recorded the EXACT location on GPS
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 …
Read More »‘Pilot error’ behind Shoreham airshow crash that killed 11 people
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 …
Read More »Two F-15s Made Emergency Arrested Landings In Opposite Directions On The Same Runway at Kadena Air Base
Two USAF F-15C/D Eagles made emergency landings at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan on January 15th, 2019. What made the incident so unique is that both jets landed on the same runway in the opposite direction of one another, catching the arresting cables at each end of the runway …
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