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The Day the Music Died: The Plane Crash that Claimed Three Rock Legends. The death of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper in an Iowa cornfield became known as “The Day the Music Died” after the 1971 Don McLean song. On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll …

Imagine flying a plane so high that the world looks spherical and the sky is pitch-black. The Mikoyan Mig-31 fighter is the only jet plane in the world to make it possible to fly on the very edge of space. The Mikoyan Mig-31 fighter is the only jet plane in …

First F-35Bs Operate off of HMS Queen Elizabeth. The F-35B Lightning Jets Landing on and Launching From Britain’s Newest Carrier for the First Time Royal Navy Commander Nathan Gray and RAF Squadron Leader Andy Edgell were the first pilots to land their F-35 Lightning stealth jets on the flight deck …

Air Niugini Boeing 737 crashed into Pacific with 47 onboard. A Boeing 737-800 operated by Air Niugini came to rest in a lagoon during an attempted landing at Chuuk International Airport in Micronesia. The aircraft landed in the water about 145 meters offshore from the runway 04 thresholds. Six passengers …

Indian Navy Chetak helicopter crashes on a training sortie. A Chetak CH 442 helicopter of the Indian Navy on a training sortie crash-landed at INS Rajali. The chopper crash-landed with 3 onboard while carrying out a dry winching dual sortie No loss of life has been reported. However, the main …

Military jets Insane low-pass 1) It shows what is probably a Su-24M Fencer, a supersonic, all-weather, twin-engined, two-seater plane with a variable geometry wing, designed to perform ultra low level strike missions developed in the Soviet Union and serving, among the others, with the Syrian, Iranian and Libyan Air Force …

China’s new FTC-2000G multi-role combat aircraft makes debut flight. FTC-2000G is a fixed-wing, multi-role combat plane mainly tasked with airstrikes against ground targets. It is developed by state-owned defense company Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC). It flew for about 10 minutes in Guizhou. The aircraft can double up as a fighter …

Here is a Stunning GIGANTIC Mil Mi-8 AMT RC Turbine Scale Model. This is one of the biggest RCs we’ve seen to date. These guys built something special. People that call RC SCALE MODEL “toys” have no idea what they’re talking about, so please refrain from saying that if you can.   Related …

Indian Air Force vice chief accidentally shoots himself. The vice chief of Indian Air Force (IAF), Air Marshal S B Deo, is understood to have accidentally shot himself in his thigh. Sources said on Wednesday that he was rushed to a military hospital in Delhi where he underwent a surgery. …

B-52 Tested 2,000lb Quickstrike-ER Winged Standoff Naval Mines During Valiant Shield. BUFF’s new arsenal of weapons is probably what’s most exciting about it. Beyond a number of hypersonic weapons and guileful air-launched decoy jammers, this new weapons menu includes the Quickstrike family of naval mines equipped with JDAM-ER guided wing kits. …