An Air Force officer flew a plane into a hurricane for the first time on a bet
Col. Joseph Duckworth was one of the Air Force’s most skilled pilots. Although a flyer during World War II, he never saw combat behind the stick of any aircraft. Despite…
3 reasons Charles Lindbergh’s first transatlantic flight was groundbreaking
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born in Detroit, Michigan. The Lindberghs continued to live in Detroit until their house burned down in 1905, which led them to relocate to Little Falls….
This video shows how the US military delivers tanks at 150 mph (and it’s nuts)
During the Cold War, the U.S. faced the very real possibility they’d have to rush masses of troops to the front line but wasn’t sure where the front line would open up. While the more obvious places like the Fulda Gap or Checkpoint Charlie had tro…
The last dogfight between propeller airplanes happened in Central America
In 1969, Honduras and El Salvador fought a brief but explosive war that lasted 100 hours. It is sometimes called “The Football War” because its outbreak coincided with a soccer…
The Hurricane is the overlooked hero of the Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a turning point for the allied forces during WWII. After their evacuation at Dunkirk, the British Army was in a poor state, having abandoned much of its warfighting equipment and machinery in France. The Home Guard, the arm…
It’s almost impossible to get COVID-19 on an airplane, new military study suggests
A new military-led study unveiled Thursday shows there is a low risk for passengers traveling aboard large commercial air…
7 epic photos from our enemies’ Instagram feeds
We have a history of showing off American military hardware, training, and photos. But we’re not always great about showing the great photographic work of our rivals. (Our “enemies” if you’re feeling aggressive or if you need to make your headli…
Has any passenger ever landed an airplane?
Natapixie asks: Has a non-pilot passenger ever managed to land an airplane?
A common Hollywood trope when dealing with commercial airline-centric plots is inevitably at some point the pilot or pilots will become incapacitated and the lead char…
How the Space Force could conduct an airborne assault on the moon
Look, we all hope that Space Rangers will be elite, Buzz Lightyear-types but with tattoos and lethal weapons instead of stickers and blinking lights. But if they’re going to be Buzzes, they have to learn to fall with style. And in the U.S. military…
U-2 spy plane took its first flight 64 years ago, but it was an accident
On Aug. 1, 1955, a prototype of the U-2 spy plane sprinted down a runway at Groom Lake in Nevada, and its massive wings quickly lifted it into the sky.
That wasn’t exactly how it was supposed to go. It was meant to be a high-speed taxi test, …