China's J-18 Snowy Owl: Myth or Reality?
Over the past year or so, rumours on the Internet have persisted that China has been building a stealthy STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) aircraft in a similar vein…
F-35 First Night Flight video
On Jan. 19, 2012, the Lockheed Martin F-35A CTOL (Convetional Take Off and Landing) performed its very first night flight launching from Edwards Air Force Base, California. Piloted by Lockheed…
[Updated] U.S. Special Forces raid in Somalia: no need for stealth choppers so did they parachute from a C-17?
Update Jan. 25 15:33GMT In the night between Jan. 24 and 25 a US joint Special Forces team (including the Navy SEALs) team freed two Western workers kidnapped in Somalia…
If you wondered why a C-5 Galaxy performed the flyover at Gillette Stadium before the AFC Championship game.
On Sunday Jan. 22, a C-5 Galaxy (#86-0023) using callsign "Rodd 10" performed a flyover for the AFC Championship game between New England Patriots and Baltimore Ravens. Used to fast…
China: does it need to copy the RQ-170 "Beast of Kandahar" captured in Iran?
As has been widely reported it is no secret that China is trying to acquire stealth technology for use in their indigenous aircraft program. It was only last year that…
F-35: flying on phased out fuel or programmed by a videogame freak?
Soon after publishing the article about the "F-35 from the Cockpit" I've received some emails and comments about an interesting thing readers have noticed in one of the webminar slides used to…