With Hurricane Irene about to cause the end of days here on the east coast (sarcasm) we thought we’d remind everyone of the fact that, over the last week, the WC-130J Weatherbirds of the USAF’s 53rd weather reconnaisance squadron have been flying multiple missions a day into the storm. The Herks are customized with scientific […]
From the monthly archives:
August 2011
Check out this pretty rare footage of the prototype for Japan’s new twin-engine cargo hauler, the Kawasaki XC-2. The jet is meant to replace Japan’s fleet of C-130 Hercules and Kawasaki C-1s first flew in early 2010 and is currently undergoing flight testing. Designed to operate from 7,000-foot runways while carrying 37-tons of cargo, the […]
Well, it might have been a sad day for Navy fighter jocks and a proud day for Air Force cargo haulers. A Navy F/A-18E/F Super Hornet became the first U.S. fighter jet ever to be flown home from war inside a cargo plane on Aug. 18. As you can see above, the poor Super Hornet […]
With a $1.7 million bounty on his head, former (I think we can say that now) Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi is now being hunted by not only the rebels but also the host of NATO ISR assets involved in the fight and possibly British SAS commandos. UK Defence Secretary, Liam Fox announced yesterday that “NATO is providing […]
Just weeks after the U.S. retired its Space Shuttle and began what may be a long dependence on Russia to get American astronauts into space, an unmanned Russian spacecraft burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere after failing to reach orbit. Apparently, the “upper stage” of the rocket propelling the Progress cargo ship, which is the […]
