by Lee Cloer | Jan 24, 2020 | General Interest, Jet Fridays, Video
In the Avengers movies, the secret group SHIELD used a massive full-size aircraft carrier called a helicarrier. This mammoth ship contained four gigantic fans that provided enough lift to help hide the carrier amongst the clouds. From the carrier, SHIELD could launch...
by Lee Cloer | Jan 17, 2020 | General Interest, Jet Fridays, Video
The F-15 Eagle is a large, highly capable beast of a fighter aircraft. Normally piloted by a single crew member, on a training mission in 1983, one two-seat trainer would be tested under some incredible flying circumstances. F-15 Eagle – a rocket with wings The...
by Lee Cloer | Jan 15, 2020 | General Interest
He was born on October 2, 1918, in Portland, Maine in the United States. Like many men in the U.S. military in the early 1950s, he would die while serving his country halfway around the world in Korea. His service does not begin there. By the time Major Charles J....
by Lee Cloer | Jan 10, 2020 | General Interest
Slicing silently through the depths of the South China Sea, a Japanese submarine is on patrol in the shipping lanes near the Raiu Islands. It’s early morning and the crew has been at sea for 8 days, underwater for nearly 48 hours. They will soon need to surface...
by Lee Cloer | Dec 20, 2019 | General Interest, Jet Fridays, Video
After 34 years, Top Gun is returning to the big screen. Things have changed quite a bit since Maverick was being launched off the USS Enterprise in his F-14 Tomcat. Instead of the Enterprise, this time the aircraft carrier is the USS Abraham Lincoln. When he returns...