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Senior aviation officials from all four branches testified before Congress on Thursday to emphasize the need for budget certainty in the future in order to maintain America’s combat readiness in the skies. Over the past ten years of combat operations, the Department of Defense has been forced to continue operations under what’s called “continuing resolution” […]

On this day in SOF history: October 16th 1981 — 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment is officially established The legendary aviation unit responsible for flying the most high-risk missions in American Special Operations was officially established on October 16th, 1981. We take for granted the incredibly skilled pilots within the Regiment, but before the Night […]

Who wants one! Who would ride in it??? Comment below. Passenger Drone is the developer of the world’s most advanced autonomous manned flying vehicle. Their mission is to make self flying manned drones available to everyone, at anytime, from anywhere and turn this new and exciting aircraft into mainstream way of transportation . On-demand aviation and manned […]

Army press release: PORT ARTHUR, Texas – America’s Army Reserve dispatched crews from the C. Company 7-158th General Support Aviation Battalion, Fort Carson Colarado to rescue 183 local residents and facility staff from Lake Arthur Place and Cypress Glenn Nursing home. Army Reserve Soldiers launched 18 lifts consisting of Chinook and Blackhawk aircraft to transport residents […]

Although it was introduced way back in 1966, and retired from service a whopping eighteen years ago, the SR-71 Blackbird remains among the most popular military aircraft of all time – and with good reason.  Despite its relative old age when compared to modern feats of aviation ingenuity like the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter or […]

The SR-71 Blackbird has had an almost immeasurable effect on the world we live in today.  Its record as the fastest aircraft ever to take to the skies speaks to the incredible engineering and problem solving employed by Lockheed Martin in the 1960s, and the reconnaissance missions it carried out over the Soviet Union and […]

In the modern age of missiles we can fire at targets over the horizon, and a seemingly limitless suite of radar, infrared, and optics technologies designed specifically to keep our pilots aware of everything going on around them, one could be forgiven for forgetting that there was a time when military aviation relied almost solely […]

If you are around aviation very long you see some wild and crazy things. Here are some of the best. Don’t worry, no one was hurt during filming (or flying). Featured image by video screenshot   This video courtesy of Fighter Sweep.

If you are around aviation very long you see some wild and crazy things. Here are some of the best. Don’t worry, no one was hurt during filming (or flying). Featured image by video screenshot

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 […]

The U.S. Air Force is turning obsolete F-16 Fighting Falcons into target practice, a longstanding tradition as older planes age out. The dronified F-16s will be used to test new weapons, including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The Air Force had previously relied on F-4 Phantoms turned into target drones, but the supply of obsolete […]