SAAB Gripen wins Brazil fighter jet bid. Boeing Super Hornet victim of NSA scandal?
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has announced that the SAAB Gripen NG fighter jet has been selected for the FX-2 program of the Brazilian Air Force. The decision to buy 36…
Low level flying and bombing run from the Harrier Jump Jet cockpit
About three years ago a fleet of about 50 perfectly working Harrier GR9 aircraft belonging to the RAF Joint Force Harrier were retired as a consequence of a spending review.…
Video shows how enormous C-5 Galaxy’s 28-wheel landing gear system works
The huge C-5 Galaxy features a unique tricycle-type landing gear system consisting of a total of 28 wheels. As already explained, this fine piece of machinery is made of four…
Last SR-71 Blackbird engine test in full afterburner at Edwards Air Force Base
"To experience a J58 in full burner close up and personal is hard to describe. Picture a gigantic blow torch, 40 inches in diameter, putting out a blue-yellow-orange flame over…
New image of a Russian Tu-22M Backfire with cruise missile emerges
Not many images showing the KH-22, a large, long-range cruise missile developed by the Soviet Union to target U.S. Navy aircraft carriers with a conventional or nuclear warhead, can be…
Hacker Releases kit to make Aerial Drone capable to Hijack other flying Drones
Few days ago, famous hacker Samy Kamkar (the author of a Javascript exploit that forced MySpace.com offline in 2005) released on his website the software and the hardware specifications needed…
