Extremely rare: U.S. Navy plane lands on snow-covered aircraft carrier’s flight deck
Arrested landings on the moving flight deck on an aircraft carrier can be extremely tricky in several conditions. At night, when the horizon is not clearly visible and pilots have…
Arkansas Air National Guard’s A-10s fly last 4-ship before transitioning to drones
On Dec. 30, 2013, Arkansas Air National Guard's 188th Fighter Wing at Ebbing Air National Guard Base, Fort Smith, Ark. flew one of the very last four-ship missions with the…
U.S. Navy’s new surveillance plane is full of flaws and not yet effective
Although it has not been released yet, the outcome of the annual report on major weapons, by Michael Gilmore, chief of the Pentagon testing office, has already made the news.…
[Video] An inside look from the Air Force CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft
Taken from different POV (Pointsof View) the following video shows the CV-22 Osprey as it lands at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, in Dayton, Ohio, on…
U.S. Air Force ramps up presence in the Horn of Africa
Between Jan 19 and 20, the U.S. Air Force's 920th Rescue Wing from Patrick Air Force Base deployed several of its HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters and approximately 70 helicopter crew,…
[Photo] Space Shuttle Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center
In 2012 we reported about the Space Shuttle Orbiters being moved across the U.S. atop NASA's modified Boeing 747 SCA (Shuttle Carrier Aircraft). We followed Discovery's trip over Washington DC…