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Shuttle replacement spacecraft’s development, testing and manufacturing video

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has released a new video which summarizes the development, testing and manufacturing of America's next generation Space Shuttle: the Dream Chaser spacecraft. U.S. lost the capability…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
January 28, 2014
Military Aviation

Missing Man Flyover Arlington National Cemetery as seen from an F-15E Strike Eagle

Four F-15E Strike Eagle attack planes from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base conducted a missing man formation flyover during a funeral in honor of retired pilot. Brig. Gen. Robinson Risner,…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
January 27, 2014
Space

Israeli Air Force celebrates Space Week with eerie image of a Cosmic War

The image used by the Israel's Air Force to advertise an article about the Israeli Space Week features a battle of spacecrafts: error or subliminal message? It must have been…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
January 27, 2014
Military Aviation

U-2 spyplane pilot wannabe? Be prepared to drive sport cars at top speeds

The TU-2S is the two-seater version of the legendary U-2 Dragon Lady used to train pilots destined to fly the legendary spyplane. The U.S. Air Force operates five such planes,…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
January 26, 2014
Military Aviation

The astounding statistics of the Japanese Air Defense

According to the Japanese Ministry of Self-Defense, the Japanese Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) has scrambled its jets 138 times throughout the last quarter of 2013. All that happened due…

Jacek Siminski Jacek Siminski
January 26, 2014
Military Aviation

This is the cockpit of the upgraded B-1B “Bone” bomber

On Jan. 21, Dyess Air Force Base, in Texas, saw the arrival of the first operational B-1B Lancer with the Integrated Battle Station upgrade which gave the "Bone" new screens…

David Cenciotti David Cenciotti
January 25, 2014
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