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Spate of Deadly Marine Aircraft Accidents
I was waiting for the word on the F/A-18 incident when I heard of the Osprey. Preliminary investigations are underway of course. US military aircraft carrying more than 20 Marines crashes over Australia, killing 3 and injuring others The MV-22B Osprey helicopter crashed near Melville Island off the coast of the city of Darwin in […]
Navy Centenarian Flys Again
Donald Muncy, 100 Years Young Sent by a fellow flyer. Navy veteran airman, age 100, flies again on vintage World War II pilot-training biplane ‘I live to fly,” Donald Muncy said after soaring over central Ohio with Dream Flights By Kerry J. Byrne | Fox News A U.S. Navy veteran airman who served the nation […]
Scientists Speak on DOD’s “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,”
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena? Here’s what scientists say about whistleblower claims that Pentagon has evidence of alien crashes BY SAUL ELBEIN Interesting. Frustrating. Potentially even “credible.” But nothing that science can work on in its current form. That was how physicists and astronomers interviewed by The Hill described recent allegations that the U.S. government has been […]
Chinese B/A-1100N Foiled by DOD
DoD: Chinese spy balloon did not collect, transmit data over the US By Zamone Perez The Pentagon said Thursday that the Chinese spy balloon that flew across the continental United States earlier this year did not collect any data during its flight. “It has been our assessment now that [the spy balloon] did not collect […]
100 Years of Passing Gas
Air Force Celebrates Air-to-Air Refueling Our very own Boomer sends us news of the Air Force’s century of in-flight refueling, an amazing capability that changed military aviation. Air Force flyovers around US celebrate 100 years of air refueling By Georgina DiNardo To celebrate 100 years of air refueling, the Air Force is conducting community flyovers […]
Marines Need a Few Drone Pilots
General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 1, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (VMU-1, 3rd MAW), procured the Marine Corps’ first MQ-9A “Reaper” remotely piloted aircraft at Marine Corps Aircraft Station Yuma, Arizona in August 2021. “VMU-1 is living the Commandant’s vision of Force Design 2030, and our unit is laying the groundwork for […]
Record Deaths on Everest- Climate Change
Unavailable for comment Climate change to blame for up to 17 deaths on Mount Everest, experts say Nepal’s head of tourism says variable weather on the mountain has led to one of the deadliest years on record Experts say this is likely to be one of the deadliest years on record on Mount Everest, with […]
Space Force Commander Is Not Happy
Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman The U.S. Space Force (USSF) is the newest independent U.S. military service branch and is tasked with missions and operations in the space domain, as the name would imply. The USSF is organized as one of two coequal military service branches within the Department of the Air […]
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