A blog about planes and other flying machines
These are pictures from the NASA archives that I thought I’d share. All pictures are courtesy of NASA. Discovery was retired after its last mission and is for sale to a museum or similar institution that wants to have it for display. Here’s video from the last mission: And of course, now some pictures. [...]
This is video that shows a Sukhoi PAK FA, aka T-50, which is also known as the 5th Generation Russian Stealth Plane. The most interesting thing about this plane, is that it’s super cruise capable. Super cruise means that it can cruise at supersonic speed. The other interesting thing about this plane, is that it [...]
This is a chat that I had with SSGT Riebe at the Bluebonnet airshow in the spring of 2010. I was standing on a rickety platform next to the A-10 and had my then 6 year old daughter with me. SSGT Riebe gives us a “walk through” of the A10 cockpit.
Recovery divers from A&T recovery of Chicago spent a few days clearing mud and other debris from a Helldiver plane that crashed into the Lower Otay Reservoir. Speculation is that this plane suffered an engine failure when it crashesd, by all accounts, the Helldiver was not a particularly good plane. The first two Helldiver prototypes [...]
This is some video from NBC of the CF-18 crashing during a training flight in Alberta Canada. They don’t have an embed link for the video, so you’ll need to click the link to see it. This is a news report from Canada about the crash:
A Venezuelan Air Force K-8 Karakorum crashed in the outskirts of the Venezuelan city of Barquisimeto. No word has been given on a possible cause for the crash.
154with-moon, originally uploaded by mikhail_serbin. An investigation has discovered that non-crew members were in the cockpit of the Polish presidential Tupolev Tu-154 plane at the time of the crash on April 10. The plane crashed, killing all passengers on board while en route to Smolensk in western Russia. Tatyana Anodina, head of the inter-state air [...]
Over the summer, I had the opportunity to do some plane spotting over in San Francisco. I arrived early enough that I was able to snag the very best spot. I captured a rather mundane picture of a SouthWest Airlines Boeing 737 touching down at SFA, that just didn’t speak to me. I liked that [...]
This is the first of, I believe 3 parts, of my personal 2011 aviation highlights. This was a very active year with my aviation hobby as I got to see planes that I hadn’t seen before, I went to a couple of airshows and also went plane spotting out of state. Part 1, comes from [...]
