Tag Archives: U.S. Air Force

on Jul. 21, 2019, U.S. Air Force Viper Demo Team’s F-16C 96-0080 Suffers Horizontal Stabilizer Damage During Display Flight at 2019 Royal International Air Tattoo Few minutes into the display (the first of RIAT Sunday program), Maj. Garret Schmitz, pilot and commander of the Demo Team, stopped his routine and …

on March 6, 1990, the very last US Military flight of the SR-71 Blackbird took place. The flight originated from Palmdale, California, and flew to Washington-Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, DC. In the process, it set the official National Aeronautic Association coast-to-coast speed record of 2,086 miles in one …

U.S. Air Force Top-Secret Boeing X-37B Space Plane Spotted in Orbit on Classified Mission by an Amateur Astronomer Ralf Vandebergh, who regularly takes close-up pictures of spacecraft in the Earth’s orbit, said he observed the elusive X-37B on one of its missions. He said he first saw the space plane …

At the time of writing, 750,000 users have signed up to a Facebook event “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us”. The event has become an internet sensation. Open Link to See Details about the event. Link: 750,000 people join the Facebook event to ‘storm’ Area 51: Here’s …

U.S. Air Force Boeing E-3B Sentry (707-300) from 522nd Air Control Wing (USAF) makes an emergency landing at Lincoln Airport after one of its engines caught fire mid-flight.  Cause and damage under investigation. The six crew members were not injured. The call of an engine on fire came in shortly …

U.S. Air Force sent RC-135S Cobra Ball reconnaissance and ballistic missile detection aircraft to the Persian Gulf The Cobra Ball’s sent to the Persian Gulf comes after increasing tensions between the US and Iran have worsened since Donald Trump withdrew from a 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and several world …

The original SR-71 Blackbird Space Pilot Helmet comes with the original carrying bag is Currently available on eBay for the only US $17,995.00 Grab your chance to buy on eBay an ultra-rare Original SR-71 Blackbird Pilot Helmet. Furthermore, the seller has included “a rare t-shirt and two patches that come from Edwards Air …

on Jul. 1, 2019 at approximately 1:15 p.m. U.S. Air Force A-10 Warthog accidentally dropped bombs on Florida after ‘bird strike’ A-10C Thunderbolt II assigned to the 23d Fighter Group suffered a bird strike which caused an inadvertent release of three BDU-33s, a small non-explosive training munition Thankfully, the bombs were …

U.S. Air Force Airman Magazine has shared the details about future American combat aircraft in Video dubbed Future of Fusion According to the video, Air Force Research Laboratory and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are working to push the boundaries of speed and make future technologies possible today. Since the …

Lt. Colonel Robert Friend a retired U.S. Air Force pilot who participated in 142 combat missions during World War II as a member of the illustrious Tuskegee Airmen, died on June 21, at the age of 99. The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of pilots both fighter and bomber who …