Category: Aviation

Back on June 2nd an Air Force Thunderbird F-16 crashed after performing a flyover at the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony. Today the Air Force released the findings of the accident report. After beginning landing procedures, the pilot inadvertently rotated the throttle, placing it into an engine cut-off position. Normally, this full rotation cannot occur […]

Monday night a US Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey went down in shallow water off Japan’s southern island of Okinawa. No one was killed in the crash landing and all five crewmembers were rescued. All crewmembers were transported to a US Navy hospital at Kadena Air Base according to a Marine Corps statement. The extent of […]

A military C-130 seen circling New York City for about an hour today caused many to wonder what it was doing. Ever since the September 11th attacks New York City officials would issue a notice to the public concerning any unusual activity in the skies but no alerts were issued today. Many on Twitter became […]

December 12, 1979 marked the first flight of the US Navy’s Sikorsky SH-60/MH-60 Seahawk. Derived from the Army’s UH-60 Blackhawk the Navy uses the Seahawk in a variety of missions including anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface ship warfare, search and rescue, replenishment, mine detection and medical evacuation. It entered service for the Navy on 22 June 1989. Watch […]

About a week ago President-elect Trump caused a major stir when he tweeted that the cost Boeing was charging for the new Air Force One program was too much and that he wanted to cancel the program. Today the President-elect went another step further stating the F-35 Lightning II costs are “out of control” and […]

Flying modern jet fighters you often find yourself shaking your head in wonderment over something you were able to do with the aircraft. To explain how the plane could do what it just did we would say “PFM” or Pure F…ing Magic. Watch below and see a whole lot of “PFM” as a US Navy […]

This video footage reportedly shows the crash that killed Afghanistan General Mohayedin Ghori on November 29, 2016. The Russian made Mi-17 helicopter went down in the Muri Chaq area of Bala Murghab district in Badghis province, Afghanistan. Seven other people on board survived the crash but were injured. The Taliban originally said they shot down […]

Some things are changing in war torn Afghanistan. The life story of Safia Ferozi is truly remarkable! As a child her family fled their home in Kabul fearing for their safety due to one of many tribal civil wars going on in the country at the time. Relocating to Pakistan they did not return home to […]

2016 seems to have had a more than usual number of military pilots that have been lost. As you read the many stories of crashes and accidents you may have seen someone comment, “Throw a Nickel on the Grass.” There may be a bit of debate about the exact origins of the saying but all […]

Are you old enough to remember the pride that the country felt when John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth? It was overwhelming at the time. Gaining world fame as one of the original seven NASA astronauts was just one of many accomplishments in his remarkable life. Glenn quit college after the […]

Marine Corps F/A-18 pilot Captain Jake Frederick was killed Wednesday when his aircraft crashed into the ocean off the coast of Japan. The 32 year Hornet old pilot was on a training mission and ejected from the aircraft. Another F/A-18 that was on the mission with Captain Frederick remained on scene circling the location of the […]

Update: The Marine Corps has expanded the search-and-rescue efforts for the missing F/A-18 pilot. “Search and rescue efforts for the pilot … have expanded to a greater radius and include more rescue assets as the daylight increases,” a Thursday morning statement said.The jet that crashed had been paired with another F/A-18C for the training flight. The […]