by Lee Cloer | Apr 16, 2018 | General Interest, Repair and Engineering |
An aircraft cockpit instruments include altimeters that show the aircraft’s altitude above sea-level, indicators that provide airspeed and attitude (artificial horizon) that display the plane’s relation to the horizon, and an attitude indicator that lets a pilot know...
by Lee Cloer | Apr 13, 2018 | General Interest, Jet Fridays, Video |
We have shared video footage of F-18 Hornets piloted by the Navy’s Blue Angels as they put on air shows in previous Jet Friday posts. We have also shown you low flying jets on training maneuvers just above the landscape, zipping through canyons and into snowy mountain...
by Lee Cloer | Apr 2, 2018 | General Interest, Video |
The first instances of military aviation applications included lighter-than-air balloons. In 1903, the Wright Brothers flew the first heavier-than-air glider 120 feet across the dunes in North Carolina. The next few years of experimentation found the airframe...
by Lee Cloer | Mar 30, 2018 | General Interest, Jet Fridays |
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are more commonplace today than they were in 1970. Often, these unmanned technological marvels are operated remotely by a ground-based controller, from take-off, through the mission, and during landing. Still, even a UAV will not land in...
by Lee Cloer | Mar 9, 2018 | General Interest, Jet Fridays, Video |
A dogfight between a Dutch F-16 Fighting Falcon and an American F-15 Eagle—This video is shot from two angles inside the cockpit of the F-16. One perspective is forward facing off the starboard side of the pilot’s helmet and the other from the port side of the...
