In the dead of the night, a cargo aircraft pops out of a cloud. At 10,000 feet above the dark landscape below, the aircraft loiters just outside of the battlefield, cutting large circles in the sky. Onboard, a team of professionals prepares themselves for their...
When the military needs to transport troops, weapons, and military equipment quickly, it calls on its heavy lifter cargo aircraft. Which cargo aircraft is used will depend on the number of troops and equipment to be delivered into the battle theater and the access to...
When you see fast-moving military aircraft, you are usually always looking up. For that matter, anytime any aircraft is moving through the sky, unless you are also on another aircraft, your head is tilted back and your eyes are squinting as you try to catch a glimpse....
Da Vinci’s Parachute One of the many sketches of Leonardo Da Vinci features a man dangling below a parachute. Along with this sketch from 1485, he also suggests what size of a parachute would be needed for a person wearing the chute to fall safely. Da Vinci’s...
In the Christmas season of 1952 during a routine weather reconnaissance mission, a US Air Force aircrew flying out of Anderson Air Force Base in Guam started a tradition that is still going to this day. In fact, the decision the airmen made that day, some 3,500 miles...
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