Experimental Aircraft, History & Legends, Military Aviation, Tech & Space, Uncategorized, World Records Aviation
There have been countless aircraft capable of flying faster than the speed of sound. Some have reached twice that, and a few as high as three times the speed of sound. But there is one rocket plane to rule them all. An aircraft that was introduced in 1959, flew so...
History & Legends, Military Aviation, Photography, Reconnaissance, Tech & Space, UAV
During the 1950s the Americans saw a big need of having a reconnaissance aircraft to spy on the Soviets during the Cold War. They were trying to use old bombers and rebuilt RB-47s to complete the mission but the Russians had heavily improved their anti-aircraft...
Fighter Flights, Fighter Jets, History & Legends, Military Aviation
Switzerland is a weird country. A few examples? In the case of nuclear war, the Swiss have bunkers capable of fitting more than 100% of the country’s population – it is the only (paranoid enough) country to be capable of doing that. Swiss highways can be...
History & Legends, Military Aviation, Tech & Space, Uncategorized, World Records Aviation
The fastest air-breathing Aircraft To start with – there is a nice video of (former) Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson explaining the fastest plane in the world – Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. Airplanes. They come in many different shapes and sizes, materials...
Aircraft Carriers, Fighter Jets, History & Legends, Military Aviation
The Nimitz aircraft carrier. An enormous source of destruction, capable of delivering hundreds of tons of explosives to its enemy in under an hour, but it’s much more than that. Its 100 000 tons of steel, 18 floors under the deck and its impressive length of 332...
Aircraft Carriers, Fighter Jets, History & Legends, Military Aviation
The aircraft carrier is widely known to be a weapon of tremendous power but its shape and size look like nothing else and its features are surprisingly unknown to ordinary people. That is the reason why in this article we will look into the exterior of this...
Aircraft Carriers, Fighter Jets, History & Legends, Military Aviation
How the aircraft carrier idea started USS North Carolina (ACR-12) was the first naval vessel to launch an aircraft while UNDERWAY- in 1916, 25 years before the commissioning of the BB55, which is pictured. Eugene Ely takes off from a temporary ramp on the USS...
Fighter Jets, History & Legends, Military Aviation, Stealth Fighter Jets, Tech & Space, World Records Aviation
USAF and RuAF Fleet strength Let’s start with a little bit of heroic (maybe slightly biased) videos from both sides. The Americans are further down. The US Air Force has since the end of the second world war been regarded as the supreme air force of the world,...
Fighter Jets, History & Legends, Military Aviation, Stealth Fighter Jets, Tech & Space, UAV, World Records Aviation
What does the most expensive in aviation mean? The answer to this question is not simple. In the last one hundred years a countless number of military planes have been developed and each of them required plenty of money, work and sometimes even people’s live. Also, it...
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