Air

The legendary Grumman F-14 Tomcat is widely considered the best fleet air superiority fighter the U.S. Navy ever put to sea. But the Navy wasn’t the only one to fly F-14s, NASA had two of the formidable fighters too, and together the planes helped provide valuable flight test research that …

  More than 2,500 airborne troops and 200 pieces of hardware are kicking off a large-scale military drill in Central Russia. They will practice conducting rapid assaults and dropping armoured vehicles from the sky. A video from Russia’s Defense Ministry published on Tuesday shows large Il-76 cargo planes practising landing, …

According to RT news Article Published on 13 Jul 2018. Russia’s defense ministry confirms that its New PAK-DA bomber will use stealth tech PAK DA, Russia’s future subsonic nuclear-capable bomber, will have stealth technology incorporated in its planer, a defense official confirmed after touring a plant, where the advanced project is being …

According to “The Warzone ” Article Published on July 10, 2018, The U.S. Air Force Is Hiding Its Controversial close air support  Flyoff Between the A-10 and F-35 U.S. Air Force has begun a much-awaited comparative evaluation of the close air support capabilities of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter versus the venerable …

Antonov An-225 Mriya has been flying for three decades now and has held the record of the world’s largest plane that whole time. Being one of the world’s most photographed and videoed aeroplanes means there aren’t many angles of the one-off jet that we haven’t seen, but Antonov is going …

Article Source: Aviation Geek Club on Jan. 20, 1974. Phil Oestricher was the test pilot of  the first flight of the General Dynamics YF-16 was an unintentional takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) Oestricher conducts high-speed taxi tests, the aircraft lifts off the runway, and rather than risk …

In the above video, you can see, Legendary Belgian Air Force Silvers Aerobatic Team member, William “Bill” Ongena performing a touch-roll-touch in a Lockheed F-104G Starfighter, a plane that was infamously difficult to control at lower speeds. The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, also known as the “Missile With A Man In …

Astra MK-1 is a basic variant of this series and guided by active radar seeker and exhibits elements of the French-built Matra R 530D and the Russian Vympel RVV-AE/R-77 (AA 12 ‘Adder’) designs. The missile is fitted with an indigenous Ku-band RF active seeker – a derivative of the Russian …

The following U.S. Navy video, called “The Lucky Few”, tells the nearly forgotten story of the incredible CH-47A Chinook mission flown by Maj Ba Van Nguyen to save his family Daring escape story from the 1975 Fall of Saigon Vietnamese pilot loaded family onto the helicopter and tailed U.S. choppers …

Image Credits: U.S Airforce On  Wednesday 7 April 1999 a Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker of USAF registration number Registration: 57-1418 Exploded during a pressure test at Oklahoma City-Tinker AFB During Pressure, the test crew didn’t pay attention to one minor detail and did not follow instructions and checklists and as a result of …