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Aircraft

U.S. Air Force Fighting Falcon Skids Off Runway, Flips Over

A commander of the United States Air Force Thunderbirds — the branch’s elite flight demonstration team — told reporters that one of its F-16D Fight Falcons skidded off a Dayton, […]

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6 years ago0
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Watch This Plane Almost Land on This Camera Guy’s Head

Is Saint Barts (i.e. Saint Barthélemy) so stunningly gorgeous that it makes a rational individual lose one’s mind? Does its tropical surroundings pump you up with so much bliss that your amygdala […]

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6 years ago0
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New Details Emerge About the SR-71’s Daughter — the SR-72

The most storied aircraft in the history of the United States military — the SR-71 Blackbird — is ever closer to have some offspring. A daughter? if you will? The […]

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6 years ago0
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Watch How NOT to Fly a $35K Toy Fighter Jet

You can count on one hand how many things with a price tag in the thousands of dollars that you want to see end up in a mess of smoke and […]

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6 years ago0
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Serviceman Busted for eBaying Parts From Marine One

A United States Marine just plead guilty to eBaying parts from Marine One — the presidential helicopter — and stealing about $100,000 in supplies from Quantico. Branden Baker, 34, was […]

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6 years ago0
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Sonic Boom From Mysterious Air Force Spacecraft Shakes Central Florida

For two years, an unnamed, secret spacecraft belonging to the United States Air Force hovered around Earth, performing things largely unknown to all but a handful of members of the […]

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6 years ago0
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A Pilot Once Got Kicked Out of the Air Force for Flying Under a Michigan Bridge

Michiganders affectionately refer to it as “Big Mac”, “Mighty Mac”, and in 1959 a United States Air Force pilot decided out of nowhere that it was a good idea to […]

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6 years ago0
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Remembering Airmen & Their Birds’ Painted Metal Noses

Nicknames. Enemies. Slogans. Animals. Pinup girls. In the United States military — the U.S. Air Force especially — the tradition of nose art is as rich, colorful and dynamic as the […]

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6 years ago0
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Watch a Bunch of Tigers Rip a Drone Right Outta the Sky

As far as the United States military goes, drones are only gaining popularity. More and more they’re being utilized for surveillance as well as combat, so much so that — […]

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6 years ago0
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Airmen Carried Out Airstrikes on ISIS … While Wearing Santa Hats

In case it’s been forgotten already, Christmas was this past Sunday. For most Americans, it meant a number of things, namely: no work, seeing family, lavish dinner, plenty of desserts, […]

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6 years ago0
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How an Old Air Force Bulletin Lead to NORAD’s Santa Tracker

They didn’t know it at the time, but on Christmas Eve in 1948, the United States Air Force started a tradition that’s become a military holiday trademark. Something that’s relied […]

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6 years ago0
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U.S. Navy Jet Painted Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness

Over the years, the United States Navy has proven to be a dominant force in battling those foreign and domestic enemies attempting to poison and destroy what America “is”: freedom, liberty […]

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6 years ago0
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Play With This ‘F-35 Calculator’ Some Smartypants Made

Hey, guess what?! The F-35 is no “drop in the hat.” If it were, the drop would be … well, it would look like this (via PageTutor.com): Not the above photograph […]

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6 years ago0
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Watch the Last Surviving Doolittle Raider Embrace His Old Bird

At 101 years old, retired Lieutenant Colonel Richard Cole — the last surviving member of Doolittle’s Raiders, a group of pilots that helped win the showdown in the Pacific Theatre […]

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6 years ago0
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Watch This North Korean Pilot Botch Airshow Landing, Await Wrath

Okay let’s hypothetically say you’re the pilot in the following video. You’re from North Korea, in the military there, and are selected to fly one of the sick sad funhouse […]

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6 years ago0
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The Air Force Is About to Bake Their Jets Like Birthday Cakes

About a year ago, a bunch of bakers in Italy got together and did something absurd. They made a huge cake. And not just any huge cake — the biggest […]

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6 years ago0
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This Is the World’s Smallest (Twin Engine) Airplane

Grab one of your son’s toy planes. Fisher-Price, Mattel, Hasbro. Whatever. Then grab a couple of those personal, portable fans. The miniature handheld ones that run on wristwatch batteries maybe. […]

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6 years ago0
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Watch an Itsy-Bitsy AMERICAN F-16 Excite a North Korean Crowd

The totalitarian dictatorship doth protest too much, wethinks? It would appear so, because after all North Korea’s bellyaching about the West bringing them down they sure get a kick out […]

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6 years ago0
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This Navy Pilot’s Story Makes ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ Seem Hokey

Remember this name: Dieter Dengler. For he’s the subject of this post, and the subject of many a creative work. One is a Hollywood blockbuster, starring Christian Bale. A few are several […]

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7 years ago0
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U.S. Air Force’s New Stealth Bomber Officially Has a Name

Back in February we had a little fun on this here blog trying to come up with names for the United States Air Force’s pending marvel: the B-21 — the […]

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7 years ago0
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