by Lee Cloer | Jun 15, 2018 | General Interest, Jet Fridays, Video |
When you take your family to an airshow, you’ll see a lot of civilian aircraft parked near the runway that you can walk in and around. There will be flight demonstrations of specialty aircraft and sometimes aerobatic demonstrations that will amaze both children and...
by Lee Cloer | Jun 6, 2018 | General Interest |
It’s the early morning of June 6, 1944. The mixture of ocean salt water and diesel fill the air as soldiers heavy with rifles, ammunition, and packs carefully climb down rope nets hung from the sides of troop ships. Below them are landing craft called Higgins LCM-3....
by Lee Cloer | May 21, 2018 | General Interest, Repair and Engineering |
A United States P-3 Orion is on a routine patrol over an area of the eastern Pacific west of Costa Rica in international airspace. Its mission is to search for, locate, and track a narco submarine used by cartels out Central and South America. Once located, it will...
by Lee Cloer | May 18, 2018 | General Interest, Jet Fridays, Video |
In 1907, the U.S. Air Force, which was originally part of the United States Army as the Aeronautical Division using balloons for observation, took its first steps to leave the earth by requesting bids for heavier-than-air aircraft. In July 1909, with President Taft...
by Stan Stark | May 15, 2018 | General Interest, Repair and Engineering |
High power tube-driven Mechanically Scanned Antenna (MESA) RADARs ruled the skies for decades. They were the backbone of the weapon systems on board the F-16, F-15, F-18, and were produced by the thousands. But where have they gone and why? Have Actively and Passively...
