Well, one of Russia’s two Sukhoi T-50 PAK FA stealth fighters had to abort a takeoff at the 2011 MAKS airshow outside Moscow today. Apparently, a problem with the right engine forced the pilot to cancel the takeoff following four days of successful demo flights by both PAK FA test jets at the show. I’m curious […]
From the monthly archives:
August 2011
So the Libyan rebels have finally made it into some neighborhoods of Gadhafi’s stronghold, Libya’s capitol city of Tripoli. This comes just after the rebels overran the base of the Khamis brigade, named after one of Col. Gadhafi’s sons who commands them. The Khamis brigade is one of the best equipped in Gadhafi’s army and […]
Enjoy this cockpit video of a C-17 approach and landing at Mcguire AFB (I’m sorry, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst) in New Jersey shot by our own Glenn Anderson as he returned from a trip to Afghanistan. Nothing to fancy here, just a cool ride into the States.
It’s been quite a week for UAV related news; we found out that the Navy will replace its big EP-3 Aries SIGINT planes with drones around 2020, then the Air Force announced that a midair collision occurred between a C-130 and a drone in Afghanistan and the Navy is arming its Fire Scout drone choppers. Now, Boeing […]
In case you haven’t seen this yet, almost all F-35s have been cleared to resume flying. This comes roughly three weeks after a valve failure on test jet AF-4’s critical (and revolutionary) Integrated Power Package grounded the fleet. While the program office hasn’t yet determined the root cause of the problem, all F-35 test jets are cleared […]
