High, Hot and Dirty Landings
Fort Carson, CO; Red Devil Landing Zone (LZ) Red Devil Landing Zone is the highest altitude tactical dirt landing zone in the United States available for military training. As a part of the First...
View ArticleThis Is How You Pre-Flight the SR-71 Blackbird
Avgeekery is proud to profile ‘avgeeks’ who share their passion for aviation in unique ways. Recently, we ran into Erik Johnson. He is a self-professed avgeek having grown up immersed in the world of...
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Who Knew They Could Even Fit That Many F-16s On a Runway?
https://youtu.be/bwhBQx76WHY How do you evaluate your pilots, test the capabilities of your maintainers, and scare the crap out of your enemy all in one exercise? You conduct an elephant walk! An...
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Too Big For Its Own Good: Why A MD-11 Based Tanker Was Never Built
It’s a question that almost every avgeek has asked before: Why didn’t McDonnell Douglas make a serious attempt to sell a tanker version of the MD-11 tanker to the Air Force? Back in the early 1990s,...
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Stealthly Return? Production restart of F-22 Raptor could be in works
House subcommittee asks Air Force to submit study to restart production of F-22 Raptor. The House Armed Services subcommittee on tactical air and land forces is indicating that production of the...
View ArticleInsanely Loud B-1 Set Off Car Alarms!
Freedom isn’t free or quiet! The Rockwell B-1 Lancer, or “Bone” (B-One, get it?) is a multiengine, variable-sweep wing aircraft primarily flown by the United States Aircraft. First developed in the...
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BREAKING: Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin Soars with Air Force Thunderbirds, Becomes...
Col. Buzz Aldrin’s voyage aboard Apollo 11 to become mankind’s second human to walk on the Moon will still top the excitement of his jet flight on Sunday with the Air Force’s Thunderbirds over...
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Vought’s Kingfisher Floatplane Was Slow, But It Saved Many WWII Crews
Vought’s OS2U Kingfisher first took flight on March 1st 1938. This observation floatplane, conceived as a replacement for the Curtiss SOC Seagull biplane floatplane, operated from American Navy...
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That Time Two Concordes Landed Simultaneously in Orlando
35 years ago this week, on Oct 18, 1982, some aviation history was made in Central Florida when two Concordes, one from Air France, and the other from British Airways, made a dual simultaneous landing...
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A Feast For Hornet Fans: Here’s Your 2017 West Coast Strike Fighter Ball Video
The 2017 version of the West Coast Strike Fighter Ball video is presented in gorgeous hi-def video with a twist or two- exactly what you’d expect from the squadrons assigned to Strike Fighter Wing...
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United Airlines Earnings Call Put CEO in the Hot Seat
United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz was put squarely in the hot seat today, as analysts aggressively questioned him about management’s failure to get the company on a positive trajectory and deliver on...
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Blue Angels, airshow pilots arrive for Wings Over North Georgia
ROME, Ga. — The thrust of the Navy’s Blue Angels broke the silence of autumn across north Georgia on Thursday as the squadron of six jets arrived for this weekend’s sixth annual Wings Over North...
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VIDEO: Come Onboard For The Last Power-Up of a Space Shuttle
In 2011, NASA put America’s space shuttle fleet to rest. With the International Space Station completed, and two crews on two shuttles lost over the course of the 30-year program, the time had come to...
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Watch: Leatherneck Close Air Support In Korea Drops The Hammer
When the film “The Marine Corps and Close Air Support” was produced the United States and the United Nations were still embroiled in the Korean War. But the subject matter was well understood by the...
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Eagle And Bunny Strike Forces Virgin Australia Emergency Landing in Melbourne
A Virgin Australia flight headed for Brisbane, Australia had to make an emergency landing Friday after hitting an eagle. The eagle was carrying a rabbit in its talons and collided with the plane’s...
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F-18s Help Develop Flight Control System for New Deep Space Rocket
For the last several years work has been underway to develop NASA’s replacement launch vehicle for the agency’s retired space shuttle fleet, the Space Launch System (SLS for short). The mammoth rocket...
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Watch Gary Sinise Fly a Growler to Visit the USS Theodore Roosevelt
“One of the coolest experiences ever.” That’s how actor Gary Sinise, one of the biggest advocates of America’s servicemen and women, described his ride in an E/A-18G Growler earlier this year, which...
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Ace Maker: Lockheed’s T-33 Trainer Produced Top-Notch Aviators
When Lockheed developed the T-33A Shooting Star jet trainer from their P-80 fighter it was first referred to as the TP-80C. Lockheed stretched the P-80’s fuselage more than three feet in order to fit...
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Handgrips Raise, Triggers Squeeze: How To Eject At The Right Time
When the Defense Audiovisual Agency (DAVA) and the United States Air Force (USAF) produced the film “Ejection Decision- A Second Too Late” in 1981 the services had been through a war (Vietnam) and...
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Wings Over North Georgia Weekend Draws 83,000 Attendees
ROME, Ga. — The Navy’s Blue Angels and a strong performer line-up drew over 83,000 guests through the gates of the Wings Over North Georgia Airshow over the weekend. The October 21st and 22nd airshow...
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