Aviation World, Bomber aircrafts, Experimental Aircraft, Fighter Jets, History & Legends, Military Aviation, Reconnaissance, Stealth Fighter Jets, World Records Aviation
The Top Ten fastest planes in the World Before we start – here is a nice video showing you the 10 fastest planes in the world: There are very many aircraft that have exceeded the speed of Mach 2.0. Some of them are research aircraft, some are military and some...
Aviation World, Experimental Aircraft, History & Legends, Military Aviation, 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...
Aviation World, History & Legends, Military Aviation, Photography, Reconnaissance, UAV
During the 1950s the Americans saw a pressing need for a reconnaissance aircraft to spy on the Soviets during the Cold War. They had been using old bombers and modified RB-47s, but the Russians had significantly improved their anti-aircraft defence systems and...
Fighter Flights, Fighter Jets, History & Legends, Military Aviation
Switzerland is an unusual 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...
Aviation World, History & Legends, Military Aviation, 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 below deck, and impressive 332-metre length amount to...
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 are unlike anything else, and its features remain surprisingly unknown to most 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...
Aviation World, Fighter Jets, History & Legends, Military Aviation, Stealth Fighter Jets, World Records Aviation
USAF and RuAF Fleet strength Let’s start with some heroic (and perhaps slightly biased) videos from both sides. The American video is further down. The US Air Force has been regarded as the world’s supreme air force since the end of the Second World War, but with...
Aviation World, Fighter Jets, History & Legends, Military Aviation, Stealth Fighter Jets, 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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