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The Blue Angels, the Navy’s flight demonstration squadron, perform over Alcatraz Island during an air show as part of Fleet Week in San Francisco, Oct. 8, 2017. Did anyone go to 2017 Fleet Week in San Francisco? Let us hear your stories. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Ian Cotter

United Airlines is set to retire its last Boeing 747 after 47 years of flight service. Since her induction into the United fleet, the Boeing 747 aka the “Queen of the Skies” has been one of our most recognizable aircrafts with her unique upper deck. Over the years, she’s won the hearts of customers and […]

Spike Aerospace announced it has conducted a test flight of a scaled down version of its proposed commercial supersonic jet aircraft. An unmanned prototype of the 18 passenger S-512 Quiet Supersonic Jet has taken to the skies for its first ever flight. Spike Aerospace, the firm behind the radical new “son of Concorde”, said the […]

Here you go…what each color shirt means for Navy aircraft carrier flight deck personnel. How many did you know? Featured image of Admiral Thomas B. Fargo, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command is rendered honors by “rainbow sideboys” on the flight deck aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Mark J. Rebilas , […]

Did you know that US Navy aircraft carrier flight deck personnel wear different color shirts? And if you do know this how many of you know what the different colors mean? Comment below if you know. Tomorrow we will post the job functions for the different color shirts. Brown, Yellow, Blue, Red, Purple, Green, and […]

It is being reported that a US drone strike killed the infamous British jihadi Sally Jones also known as the ‘White Widow’. The US Air Force Predator strike is said to have taken place close to the border between Syria and Iraq. A Whitehall source today confirmed Jones’s death after she left her home in Chatham, […]

In another show of force the US has sent more B-1 Lancer nuclear capable bombers over the Korean peninsula. Tensions have soared between the United States and North Korea following a series of weapons tests by Pyongyang and a string of increasingly bellicose exchanges between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The two […]

The German airline Air Berlin will stop flight operations by October 28th according to a company spokesperson. The company is informing employees to immediately look for other employment. Air Berlin filed for insolvency in August and a government loan is keeping its planes in the air to give it time to negotiate with investors for parts […]

VistaJet is a business jet membership charter firm that originated in Europe about 14 years ago with one jet for hire. Today, the company has over 70 jets with an inventory including the Bombardier Challenger 350 and Global 5000 and they say business is great up 30% in the third quarter. Due to this growth, […]

A Sailor guides a C-2A Greyhound assigned to the Providers of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) 30 on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Theodore Roosevelt is on a deployment to the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of operation in support of maritime security operations and theater security […]

In the photo, which was taken in 2013 but only released by ESA on Wednesday (Oct. 4), a bird crosses the sun at the same exact time as the space station. The entire photo session lasted just 1.2 seconds, making it a challenge for the astronomy club at ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre near Madrid, […]

SAN DIEGO (Oct. 6, 2017) – Sailors man the rails aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Theodore Roosevelt departed San Diego for a regularly scheduled deployment, Oct. 6, to the U.S. 7th and 5th fleet areas of responsibility in support of maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts. – DVIDS U.S. […]