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October 30, 2020 59 Years Ago Today: “Tsar Bomba”, The Terrifying 50-Megaton Mega-Bomb Was Detonated. Russia
October 30, 2020 Ultimate Aviation Gift? How About A $7,000 Photo Of The X-15 Signed by 7 Test Pilots? Military Aviation
October 29, 2020 U.S. State Department Backs Sale of 50 F-35 Lightning IIs to United Arab Emirates F-35
October 28, 2020 71 Years Ago Today: First Flight of the XB-51, The Weirdest Plane You’ve Never Heard Of. Military Aviation
October 28, 2020 Greek Media Outlets Claim Six F-35s Originally Destined to Turkey May End Up in Greece F-35

“Mysterious” plane circling over Denver was “just” an E-6B Mercury “doomsday” plane

November 17, 2016 David Cenciotti

Photos and video of a “mysterious” plane circling over Denver are making the rounds. But the aircraft was “just” a U.S. Navy Doomsday plane. On Nov. 16 people in the Denver metropolitan area saw a […]

The mysterious E-6B orbits over UK on the night Osama Bin Laden was killed

September 26, 2011 David Cenciotti

The first thing I did when Lee Armstrong told me to give a try to Planefinder‘s new search feature was to look for some E-6Bs, which are among the most interesting military planes to advertise […]