Air travel is considered the safest mode of transportation. However, when aviation accident occurs, it often results to fatalities of most, if not all, of the passengers.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) declares that air travel is expected to rise over the next 20 years. With the increase ...
After a meeting late last year with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris, BiH's Presidency Chairman Zeljko Komsic visited the World War II museum at Merville in Normandy, which will became the permanent home of the airplane.
Last month, the Dakota was loaded in parts on three trailers that arrived ...
An Air Force aircraft carrying the Vice President of the United States is designated as Air Force Two. Conversely, when the president needs to fly to locations that have runways too short for the VC-25A, the president will be assigned one of the Boeing C-32s; Lockheed C-140 Jetstars were also used in ...
Although facilities in remote areas of the Southwest have been home to classified vehicles for decades, the number and sophistication of new aircraft appear to have increased sharply over the last 10 years, when substantial funding was made available for "deep black" projects.
Vehicles now ...
Douglass's radio scanner crackled, the numbers churned on its readout. He was at White Sands Missile Range, and the sky was filled with B-1Bs and F-15s. He raised his video camera - and the battery warning light flashed. He grabbed seven seconds of video before the machine snapped off.
Douglass had ...
A glance forward reveals the top of the ball turret and the structural post that suspends it. An awkward catwalk wraps around the turret, and past that is a narrow passageway to radar and radio stations. Further forward, through a narrow slit that is the bomb bay catwalk, are the shoulders of the pilots ...
We were next cleared down to FL240, so we reduced the throttle to idle (stabilizing around 72%) and started down. Passing FL260, the motor started a low vibration that was unfamiliar to me. I was staring at the engine instruments and had just asked my copilot if he heard the vibration, when the RPM started ...
Bell Helicopter Textron is an American helicopter and tiltrotor manufacturer headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. A division of Textron, Bell manufactures military helicopter and tiltrotor products in the United States (primarily in and around Fort Worth as well as in Amarillo, Texas) and commercial rotorcraft ...