Virgin Orbit Stages First Launch Vehicle Test Drop from Boeing 747 Over Mojave
Test Drop of LauncherOne Unpowered Test Rocket Verifies Separation Technology. Sir Richard Branson’s company, Virgin Orbit, conducted a successful test drop of an unpowered LauncherOne rocket on Wednesday, July 10,…
You Really Have To Watch This 1980 Documentary About Czechoslovak Air Force’s Highway Operations
Awesome footage straight from the Cold War. After WWII and through the Cold War some countries (especially in eastern Europe) developed the concept of highway strips: a section of a…
German A400M Atlas Deployed For The First Time As Tanker to Support Air War on Daesh
The A400M will replace the A310 tanker already deployed in German Operation “Counter Daesh”. On July 5, 2019, for the first time, the German Air Force deployed an Airbus A400M…
Check Out This Photo Of An F-35C Flying Transonic With Visible Schlieren Shock Waves
The photograph was taken in the exact moment when the pilot transitioned from subsonic to supersonic speed. The photograph in this post shows a U.S. Navy Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning…
New Photos Surface of Secretive X-37B Space Plane in Orbit on Classified Mission.
Dutch Astronomer Photographs Rarely Seen Military Space Plane from Earth. Noted astronomer and satellite expert Ralf Vandebergh of Nijswiller, Limburg, Netherlands, spent months searching the skies for one of the…
U.S. MQ-9 Reaper Drones Move Closer to the Black Sea
The drones relocated to Romania because of construction works in Miroslawiec AB, Poland. The 52nd Expeditionary Operations Group Detachment 2, the unit operating MQ-9 Reaper drones in Europe, relocated from…
