Blue Skies
Gentle Reminder, with BUFFs
B-52 Stratofortress B-52s Fly Across Middle East, Drop Live Munitions Feb. 18, 2025 | By Chris Gordon Two U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratrofortress bombers flew over the Middle East in a “force projection” demonstration Feb. 17, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced. The two B-52s began their mission at RAF Fairford, U.K., before flying across Europe […]
FAA Hires the Best and Brightest
FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities FAA says people with ‘severe’ disabilities are most underrepresented segment of federal workforce By Emma Colton The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is actively recruiting workers who suffer “severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity […]
US Military Killing the Planet
North Pole Today ‘Elephant in the room’: The US military’s devastating carbon footprint The US military emits more than entire industrialised nations like Portugal and Denmark, yet evades scrutiny. By Lorraine Mallinder The US military is vast in scale, with a carbon footprint larger than any other institution on earth. But when it comes to […]
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 […]
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