Draken International Commercial Air Services (Sponsored)
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Indian Naval Aviation: Transforming at 60
India’s naval fleet air arm, known formally as Indian Naval Aviation, marked its Diamond Jubilee in May 2013 with two …
Boeing Pilot Tests Brand New F/A-18 Super Hornets
Steve “Bull” Schmidt, a Boeing test pilot, shares his experiences about what it is like to be the first to …
Interview with Rear Adm. Mark A. Vance, Commander, Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC)
Since the first military pilot took off on a live mission some 100 years ago, combat aviation has been both …
The Asteroid Threat: Playing Asteroids for Real
At the turn of the millennium, as the incumbent alumni association president at Colorado College, I contributed a letter for …
X-47B & CVN 77 Making History
Selected highlights of U.S. Navy video show the X-47B UCAS-D trapping aboard USS George H.W. Bush for the historic first …
Details of the X-47B’s First Autonomous Carrier Landing
The U.S. Navy, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and Northrop Grumman X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System – Demonstration (UCAS-D) …
Pilot Recounts Tales of SR-71 Blackbird
Lockheed Martin recently released this video recounting SR-71 Blackbird tales. Interesting stuff.…
U.S. Navy’s X-47B UCAS-D Makes First Carrier Landing | Photos
The U.S. Navy made history on July 10, 2013, when a Northrop Grumman X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System-Demonstrator (UCAS-D) made …
Book Review – The Race for Hitler’s X-Planes: Britain’s 1945 Mission To Capture Secret Luftwaffe Technology
By the time World War II ended in Europe, the Third Reich had introduced into warfare jet- and rocket-propelled combat …