Last November Edwards Air Force Base hosted animators from Disney studios. The animators were on a research expedition involving aircraft.
When Cars 2 came out, it led with a trailer for the new 2013 Disney movie Planes.
Think the visit to Edwards was related?
The Planes trailer makes references to Read more
US District Judge Jeffrey Miller ruled the surviving members of a family killed by an F/A-18 crash in San Diego were to receive $17.8 million from the US government. They had sued and sought $56 million.
Don Yoon lost his 36-year-old wife, Youngmi Lee Yoon; his 15-month-old daughter, Grace; his 2-month-old daughter, Rachel; and Read more
An experimental F-35C recently launched from the US Navy’s experimental Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS). Though it was not the first fighter to do so, it may very well be the first single-engine aircraft major weapons system launched by a US Navy catapult of any kind in some time. By the time the F-35 is operational, the EMALS will likely be established on the Gerald R. Ford class of carriers, assuming no major issues in each program.
The DoD published the video on YouTube.
Purists have for years mocked the Hollywood portrayal of military UAVs. The 2007 Transformers, for example, featured an afterburning Predator.
The Predator has a propeller, so that’s like having an afterburning Cessna 172.
Now, however, reality has started to catch up with fiction. The Air Force has reportedly purchased — and deployed, its single Predator C, which has a jet engine in place of the propeller.
It does not appear to be an afterburning engine, but there’s still time yet…
The US Coast Guard pilot charged with negligent homicide for the 2010 crash of his helicopter has faced his Article 32 hearing. Lt. Lance Leone was the sole survivor of the crash, which occurred when the helicopter hit a 1,900-foot unmarked wire span. The lead investigator said the wires were improperly marked, but even so, the helicopter should never have been that low.
Capt. Timothy Heitsch…said that as an aviator, he did not believe the lines were marked in a way they could have been seen…
The helicopter hit Read more
CIA civilian Gary Powers, infamously shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960 in a U-2, will be posthumously awarded a Silver Star by the US Air Force.
The Air Force determined that the U-2 pilot showed “steadfast loyalty” while under harsh interrogation in Soviet prisons… [citing] his “sustained courage” and gallantry despite “cajolery, trickery, insults and threats of death.”
Issues of classification and political strain kept Powers from any Read more
The extended members of four members of a family who were killed in the 2008 crash of an F/A-18 Hornet into their San Diego home are reportedly suing the Marine Corps for $56 million.
Don Yoon lost his 36-year-old wife, Youngmi Lee Yoon; his 15-month-old daughter, Grace; his 2-month-old daughter, Rachel; and his 59-year-old mother-in-law, Seokim Kim Lee, who was visiting from Korea to help her eldest daughter take care of their children.
As noted at the time, the accident represented Read more
The Air Force Times reports on the Air Force investigation of the F-22 crash in Alaska in November, 2010. The report
blames the Nov. 16, 2010, crash of an F-22 Raptor on Capt. Jeff “Bong” Haney — despite a malfunction of the jet’s bleed air intakes, which caused an automatic shutdown of multiple aircraft systems including the primary oxygen system.
In essence, the report says his oxygen system failed, but that he Read more