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November 30, 2020 Interesting Video Shows Nighttime Operations Near Area 51 Military Aviation
November 29, 2020 Let’s Talk About All The B-70 Valkyrie Variants Envisioned For The Mach 3 Superbomber Prior To Cancellation Military Aviation
November 27, 2020 Take A Look At This Documentary About The Skunk Work’s History And The Birth Of The SR-71 Blackbird Military Aviation
November 27, 2020 Check Out These New Photos Of The Italian F-35A and B Flying Together In “Beast Mode” For The First Time F-35
November 26, 2020 Italian Air Force F-35A and F-35B Fly In “Beast Mode” For The Very First Time F-35

This is what it is like to be catapulted from an aircraft carrier using Electromagnetic Launch System

June 19, 2015 David Cenciotti

GoPro camera provides a unique point of view during a catapult launch using the new electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS). The following video was taken on Jun. 16, when ship’s sponsor Susan Ford Bales visited […]

F-35C first flight (and heat and noise concerns…)

June 14, 2010 David Cenciotti

On Jun. 6, 2010, piloted by Lockheed Martin Test Pilot Jeff Knowles’, a retired Naval Aviator and test pilot who flew F-14As and F-14Ds operationally’ and who was also chief test pilot on the F-117 […]