Watch France Strike Back, Launch Fighters, Attack ISIS Capital in Syria
French leadership and military didn’t take long to get into retaliation mode, launching twelve aircraft — ten of them fighter jets — from locations in both Jordan and the United […]
Pilot Before He Crashed WWII-Era Plane: ‘I’m Not a Pilot’
“I’m not a pilot.” This is the last utterance of a British tourist back in 2013, as he glided over the open water near Galveston, Texas in a P-51 Mustang aircraft. […]
Air Force Rocket Spirals Out of Control Mid-Launch
An unmanned Super Strypi rocket launched by the U.S. Air Force in Hawaii lasted only a minute in the air before nosediving back to the ground. It was the first […]
Army Suspends Program Behind to Runaway Blimp
The Army blimp that roamed free last week will be the last of its kind. After the Oct. 28 fiasco, the Pentagon is indefinitely suspending the surveillance blimp program, which […]
Here’s Footage of the F-35 Bulleting the Blue Sky for the Very First Time
Okay, so it doesn’t have its best weapon, and won’t, for six or seven more years. And, yeah, it can’t exactly best a decades-old fighter jet in a dogfight. But. […]
It’s Tough Not to Ogle This X-47B Drone Landing on an Aircraft Carrier
This, of course, is the X-47B — a creation of the aerospace and defense technology giant Northrop Grumman, and the mother of all drones everywhere. That’s correct: it’s an unmanned “combat […]
Watch This Skydiver Get His Pant Leg Caught on Plane’s Step, Dangle at 10,000 Feet
Barnstorming was popular in the Jazz Age — bold wing-walkers dazzling onlookers from the ground with their brass and their cloud-sprinkled moxie, dancing on top of a goddamn moving aircraft. But […]
Here’s Original Footage of the LZ 129 Hindenburg Exploding in New Jersey
Nearly 80 years ago, there were blimp videos, too. But they weren’t cutesy funny clips of a big white marshmallowy dirigible slowly skulking away from the smiling Northeast. No way. Rather, […]
Watch This A-10 Warthog Buzz Whooping Pilots Sitting on Runway
Those twin TF-34 turbofan engines hum like a thousand howling Marlboro men, don’t they? The sound alone is invigorating — then add the sight and umm … you can understand why […]
Rowdy Man Gives Unwelcome Sermon About ‘MIA’ Uncle, Gets Kicked Off Philly-Bound Plane
A man got kicked off an American Airlines flight traveling from Los Angeles (LAX) to Philadelphia (PHL) after “scaring the hell out of everyone” onboard and giving an impromptu, complaint-ridden speech […]
Watch This Brand New Colossal Marine Chopper Make Its First Hover Flight
In the following video, listen closely to the 11 rotors spinning on the newest prototype of Sikorsky’s CH-53K (also referred to as Engineering Development Model-1) King Stallion helicopter. Hear it? They’re […]
Pentagon Awards Old Chum Big Contract to Build Next Air Force Strike Bomber
The Pentagon announced the winner of one of the most anticipated and coveted military contracts in years on Tuesday, and it’s a name we’ve all heard before. Because it’s a […]
Watch This B-2 Stealth Bomber Weave, Bob, Glide Like an Automatic Bat
Ethereal. Exquisite. Graceful. That’s the best way to describe the viewing experience one receives when fixated on the B-2 Stealth Bomber. It’s almost hard to describe; its design, along with […]
ISIS is Trying to Stop American Air Strikes With…Condom Bombs?
Now that the United States, Russia and Syria are pummeling Islamic State outposts from the skies, ISIS militants have been forced to defend themselves with bombs made from the only […]
This Video Flies Through Hurricane Patricia, Captures Worst Turbulence in North American History
Experiencing turbulence on a commercial airliner through a patch of fluffy clouds is one thing. Anyone who’s ever had the privilege of soaring through the air in a metal bird has felt that. […]
Marine Fighter Pilot Killed in UK Plane Crash Didn’t Eject Because He Was Trying to Save Lives
Last week, British news outlets reported that an American aircraft had crashed in the English countryside, resulting in the death of U.S. Marine pilot Maj. Taj Sareen. Even as his […]
Here’s an Old Government Film of Beavers … Parachuting
Paratroopers aren’t the only American daredevils dropped out of planes by the government. Well, now they are. But sometime in 1950, in Idaho, an unorthodox wildlife experiment put the toothy dam-building rodents […]
American F/A-18 Hornet Crashes in England, U.S. Navy Pilot Killed
An McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet crashed shortly after taking off from a RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, England on Wednesday morning. An unidentified U.S. Navy pilot, only crew member, perished in […]
Here’s Bonkers Footage of Apache Helicopters Buzzing the Hollywood Sign
Michigan’s beloved son Bob Seger once howled about “Hollywood Nights” (“all those big city nights/in those high rolling hills”), but he probably never envisioned these kind of “heights” — literal ones […]
Dutch Say Russian Missile Shot Down Malaysian Airliner, Post This Video to Prove It
The United States stands firm that Russian special forces and pro-Russian rebels shot down the Malaysian airliner and caused the MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine when they launched a surface-to-air […]