Photo: President Barack Obama inside a CH-47 in Afghanistan (without flak jacket)
Just released by the White House, this photograph, taken on May 1, at Bagram airfield, shows Barack Obama talking with Ambassador Ryan Crocker aboard Marine One moments before the helicopter…
Video: Best or Craziest helicopter pilot in the world?
This might be the best or even the more dangerous helicopter show you've ever seen. The video, most probably filmed years ago (based on the poor image quality), shows an…
Sooner or later we will all be spied upon by a drone like this.
TV coverage of sport events once relied on helicopters. Today, live video is provided by cameras carried by micro-drones like the one depicted in the image below. Used to film…
482 such planes have crashed in 30 years. There is someone risking a lot more than F-22 pilots.
As already explained in a previous post, there's a very small number of U.S. combat pilots who have asked not to fly the F-22 Raptor fighter jets, or to be…
Soyuz spacecraft's search and rescue helicopters
Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft with Expedition 30 crew members landed at Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on Apr. 27, 2012, when the capsule brought Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly…
You won't believe it: UK considered bringing back one aircraft carrier and the Harrier for Libya
Can you remember the famous possible, reportedly imminent, UK's U-turn on the F-35 version that we already discussed here? It looks like another resounding decision could have been reversed during…
