This may be the single greatest aviation story ever told, it’s about the iconic SR-71 Blackbird whose full operating specs are still classified to this day. The story, from the now out-of-print book Sled Driver by former SR-71 jockey Brian Shul (available used on Amazon for just $700).…
The F-35 initially met with some turbulence. The project was slow to get airborne. When it went over budget, and way past the intended schedule, the F-35 began to seem like one of those good ideas that might never become a reality. But some of the plane’s biggest…
Forty years after setting a record that won’t soon be broken, the flight crew of an iconic old war-bird made the trip to a Museum in south Georgia to reunite with their plane. What once was a classified spy-place is now on display, and the details of their…
Sixteen people were killed early Saturday morning when the hot air balloon they were flying in caught fire and crashed into electrical wires in Central Texas. [Scroll Down for Video] Caldwell County Sheriff Daniel Law released a statement that detailed the 911 call from before 8:00 a.m. local…
A World War II bomber that spent more than four decades as a target for the United States Navy is taking to the skies again! The B-29 Superfortress known as “Doc” will join “Fifi” the only other of the mega-bombers still flying today. [scroll down for video] In March of 1945, Doc…
Look, sports aren’t meant to be safe. It’s one human against another in a primal battle for supremacy, usually involving a ball and some kind of goal. [Scroll Down For Video] However, based on a new video that was put out by Mountain Dew, we’re pretty sure the…
Despite what the Top Gun taught us, the tower does give clearances for fly-by’s. Sometimes. This time it was during a Dependent’s Day cruise for the families of sailors. As the announcer says, the F/A-18C is “the most lethal air-to-air platform in the United States Navy”. But nobody…
Everyone knows air shows are wicked awesome. You see the coolest military planes whipping by, barrel rolling, and generally doing awesome stuff non-stop. [scroll down for video] And then there’s this pilot from Turkey who took his F-16 low enough to leave a lot of brown stains in…