At Red Flag, the international training exercise for air forces of allied countries, many of the world’s best pilots meet for the most challenging flying of their careers.
This is a feature length film in a world (The Internet) of short fluff. If you like flying… if you are curious about Red Flag… then watch [...]
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Five people on a flight from Kerry to Jersey received mobile phone text instructions from a quick-thinking air traffic controller when he guided them in to a safe landing at Cork.
In what air accident investigator John Hughes described in his report yesterday as a “serious incident”, the twin-engined Piper plane lost all onboard electrical power, [...]
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If you thought Red Bull Racing was crazy, you won’t believe the Rocket Racing League. Think NASCAR, but in the air, using planes powered by solid-state rockets flying simultaneously. The racers take off in pairs, separated by minutes, competing against the clock at the same time. That means that they will have to maneuver around [...]
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Here was a cool video that aguy shot while parachuting and reaching over 900 miles an hour and the speed of sound. The whole time unprotected… but for his suit. And amazing video about something I sorta heard about but didn’t fully understand.
The world’s first attack aircraft to employ stealth technology is slipping quietly into history.Technicians service an F-117 stealth fighter after it arrived at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, on Monday.
The inky black, angular, radar-evading F-117, which spent 27 years in the Air Force arsenal secretly patrolling hostile skies from Serbia to Iraq, [...]
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As a not extremely frequent flier, but one who has had to fly a few times recently I’m come to sympathize with those that have to fly often. The hurdles and lines you have to deal with. And its stories like the below one that make me cringe and wonder what the [...]
Watching this video I was amazed. I all of the sudden want to grab a ream of paper*, find a nice 25+ story building here in Napa and see how it goes. Then I realized I have a small issue… no buildings allowed to be higher then 4 stories. That said the [...]
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Van Gilder took some awesome pictures last year. In a rare fly over by a P-51, A-10, F-15 and also a F-22 at Edwards Airforce Base. He had a quick camera and got a number of very nice photos. (including the sample here) So click on over and see these great shots.
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Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own helicopters from the parts.
“It took me eight months to build this one,” he said, sweat pouring from his forehead as he filled the radiator of the banana [...]
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This is the A-12, a supersonic spy plane that was the precursor of the SR-71 —and according to the CIA, even while they look similar, in some ways it was more advanced than the famous Blackbird. It’s one of the ten 10 survived the 15-plane OXCART program, one of which is in the USS Intrepid [...]
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