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Last Surviving ATOMIC BOMB FLIGHT Crewman Breaks His Silence Russell Gackenbach was a second lieutenant aircraft navigator and photographer who flew into the heart of Japan on Aug. 6, 1945, as Little Boy, a 9,000-pound uranium-235 atomic bomb was dropped onto Hiroshima, Japan. Russell E. Gackenbach was a navigator in …

1 Million Rounds Per Minute – How The Hell This is even possible. Watch the world’s fastest gun effortlessly fire 1 million rounds per minute There are some pretty fast guns out there and with modern engineering, they are getting faster all the time. Since the 1960s the M134 Minigun …

In The below video The mighty Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, aka the BUFF, from Barksdale AFB pulls some vapor while performing a high-speed flyby at the 2008 Scott AFB Air Show. It was again given to us by our friends AirShowStuff videos. Aviation fanatics themselves, they’ve caught something we’ve never seen …

SR-177 Rocket Jet Fighter – A combined rocket & jet engine fighter jet. The Saunders-Roe SR.177 was a 1950s project to develop a combined jet- and rocket-powered interceptor aircraft for the Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Navy. It was an enlarged derivative of the Saunders-Roe SR.53, which was itself an …

Russia’s official designation of the PAK-FA/T-50 jet as the Sukhoi Su-57 is just another reminder that the field of fifth-generation fighters is about to get more crowded. The United States, China, Russia, Japan, and Korea are all working on their own fifth-generation designs, but so far only three planes, the …

Norwegian Frigate Intentionally Ran Aground After Tanker Collision. A Norwegian warship was heavily damaged in a collision with a Maltese oil tanker in the North Sea off the coast of Norway. Watch this remarkable time-lapse video of the tugs working to keep the ship on the rocky shoal as it sinks. The Aegis …

New Video of Russia’s Sukhoi Su-57 Doing A Low-Level Photo Shoot captured from a breathtaking angle. Video offers the chance to take a detailed, up-close look at a pair of Russia’s newest supersonic Su-57 stealth fighter jets as they smoothly glide and maneuver in the air.   Most of the …

  A-10 emergency landing due to partial loss of the canopy at Sioux Gateway Airport. The aircraft sustained a partial loss of the canopy in flight then made a safe emergency landing at Sioux Gateway Airport. The pilot was not injured. The 185th Air Refueling Wing, Iowa Air National Guard in …

Watch Russia’s Su-57 wing breaks off from the rest of the airframe. Engineers at the Sukhoi Design Bureau in Moscow have completed extreme in-house testing of the Su-57’s airframe, pushing the plane to the absolute limit of its tensile strength characteristics.   Sukhoi SU-57 Russian Super Stealth fighter jets Amazing maneuver Paying a visit to Sukhoi, a film …

Although there are plenty of really talented and fearless aircraft demonstration teams around the world, the Blue Angels have a special place in our hearts. Though the Thunderbirds are awesome and England’s Red Arrows are also elite pilots, it’s the heritage of the Blues we love so much. Unfortunately, not …