USAF Col. Rich Graham, Retired talks about how he got involved in flying the SR-71 and other airplanes. Video was recorded at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas, Texas beside the J-58 engine used in the SR-71. SR-71 Cockpit Simulator Checkout with Richard Graham SR-71 J58 Engine Tour by..
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Christmas Tree harvesting at Noble Mountain Christmas Tree Farm in Oregon. Pilot Dan Clark flying a Northwest Helicopters, LLC 206B3 Jetranger, November of 2008. Oregon is the nation’s biggest producer and exporter of Christmas trees, selling about 7.3 million trees a year, more than twice that of number two, North..
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UPDATED: First Flight Achieved! Textron AirLand, LLC, a joint venture between Textron Inc. and AirLand Enterprises, LLC, announced that the Scorpion Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR)/Strike aircraft completed its first flight at 10:30 AM Central Time. The aircraft took off from McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kansas and conducted..
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By Chris Carola, The Associated Press An American fighter that’s one of the few remaining still-airworthy planes to survive the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is being donated to an organization that flies World War II aircraft at living-history events across the United States. Robert Collings, executive director of the..
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From a collection of unidentified home movies from the 1930s purchased at an auction in Walla Walla, Washington. Includes scenes of a Monocoupe, Waco, Douglas, Ford, Pitcairn, Curtiss, gyrocopters, biplanes, and an Alaska Airlines plane.
At the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) in Orlando, Boeing demonstrated new technology with its Constant Resolution Visual System (CRVS) that allows the system to deliver almost four times the resolution of high definition for more realistic and effective military training. JVC’s new e-Shift 8K projection technology brings..
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by Ashley M. Wright, 325th Fighter Wing Public Affairs, US Air Force The 82nd Aerial Target Squadron received the last of the “new” QF-4 aerial targets Nov. 19 as the Vietnam-era aircraft landed here. The QF-4, Aircraft 68-0599, spent more than 20 years in the Air Force “Boneyard” at Davis-Monthan Air..
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