30% OFF EVERYTHING SALE – Enter Coupon Code: 30PERCENT at checkout! Sale ends March 28.

WWII Spitfire pilot takes controls 70 years later

He survived the daily dangers of being a pilot in the Second World War and even risked his life on a clandestine operation in the Soviet Union. Now aged 91, and seven decades on fr
Continue Reading ?

First flight test successful for Army’s Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle air vehicle

For more than 90 minutes, Aug. 7, 2012 the hybrid air vehicle known as the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle stayed afloat above Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. The
Continue Reading ?

Northrop Grumman, U.S. Navy Conduct First East Coast Flight of X-47B Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft

The Northrop Grumman Corporation X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System UCAS demonstrator has successfully completed its historic first flight from Naval Air Station Patuxent Pax River.
Continue Reading ?

National Aviation Day, August 19

The National Aviation Day (August 19) is a United States national observation that celebrates the development of aviation. The holiday was established in 1939 by Franklin Delano Ro
Continue Reading ?

Boeing Marks 50 Years of Delivering Chinook Helicopters

As Boeing marks the 50th anniversary of delivering the first H-47 Chinook military helicopter, the company is nearing completion of a $130 million renovation of its production line
Continue Reading ?

USAF X-51A Waverider flight ends prematurely

The X-51A Waverider successfully launched from a B-52 Stratofortress over Point Mugu Naval Air Warfare Center Sea Range, Calif., Aug. 14, 2012, at approximately 11:36 a.m. PDT. The
Continue Reading ?

Transformed X-48C Blended Wing Body Flies Successfully

The remotely piloted X-48C aircraft successfully flew for the first time August 7, 2012 at Edwards Air Force Base in California’s Mojave Desert.   The aircraft, designed
Continue Reading ?

Former F-4 mechanic connects with display plane at MCAS Yuma

Seventy-year-old Sam Robbins talks about an F4-B Phantom II jet that he believes he worked on in the early 1960s while Robbins was stationed in Virginia. The jet currently makes Ma
Continue Reading ?

China’s J-20 Transforming Stealth Fighter

Looks like China’s J-20 stealth fighter does a bit of “Transformer” contortions, probably for speed breaks upon landing. The front sure looks a lot like the F-22
Continue Reading ?

Big, Bluff, Buff – Boeing’s B-52 – 1980 Wings & Airpower CD

Boeing’s B-52, Keeper Of The Peace Or Flying Test Lab! By Lt. Colonel William D. Sluru, Jr., February 1980 issue of Wings Little was it realized when the first YB-52 thundere
Continue Reading ?