"Viper Drone": Boeing QF-16 aerial target for U.S. Air Force makes first flight
The Lockheed Martin F-16 is one of the most famous combat planes in the world. The 4500th example was delivered at the company Fort Worth production facility, in Texas, on…
"Aviation equivalent of Tutankhamun's Tomb" in Western Sahara: a perfectly preserved plane found 70 years after it went down
Polish oil company worker Jakub Perka was exploring a remote region of the Western Sahara desert in Egypt when he stumbled across a plane, later identified as a UK's Royal…
Don't worry, this weird plane with 5 engines, is just a flying test bed for a quite innovative FOD resistant engine
The following pictures show the Pratt & Whitney's Boeing 747SP flying test bed at the company's Mirabel Aerospace Centre, in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada, with a PW1217G engine flying on a…
Whistleblower pilots who did not want to fly the F-22 now ready to resume flying the Raptor!
Here's another chapter of the F-22 oxygen problems saga. According to their attorney, Frederick M. Morgan Jr, who talked to The Daily press on May 9, the two F-22 pilots…
Boeing 747 mock-up used for Special Forces counter-terrorism training in Western Australia
The ambitious al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen's "underwear bomb plot" to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner recently thwarted by CIA, has proved, once again, that civilian planes are still an attractive target for…
First weapon designed to be dropped by gravity from a drone makes debut
Once used only to perform ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance), drones are getting new weapons day after day confirming a growing trend to arm current UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in order…
