Sightings have been reported of F-117s flying again over the western US test ranges, while others are reportedly set for burial at Tonopah. This photograph, meanwhile, shows an YF-117 on ice at McKinley Climatic Laboratory.
Being born and brought-up in the UK city of Sheffield, I was surprised to discover a small airfield on the outskirts of the city that I’d never heard of before.
On November 9, 1962, during a research flight in the second X-15 airframe, an engine failure forced NASA pilot Jack McKay to make an emergency landing at Mud lake, Nevada.
Dramatic video footage from Russia Today captured a stunt plane breaking-up in mid air during inverted flight. Fortunately the pilot managed to activate the recovery shoot, living to fly another day.
For several years black project researchers have debated the possible existence of a classified aircraft called the YF-24. Could it possibly be related to Boeing’s Model-24F, or the future F/A-XX?
With the amount of government workers in and around the Washington, DC metro area, you’d think locals would be among the last to cry “UFO” after witnessing a mysterious aircraft on the back of a truck.
PC-Aero display several of their electric aircraft, including the Elektra One Solar, at the 2012 Aero-Expo (the global show for general aviation) in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
It was an exciting and emotional moment as the Space Shuttle Discovery crossed the Potomac River and flew down the National Mall of Washington, DC, mounted atop the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
Randolph AFB in Texas is one of the most architecturally appealing and arguably the most symmetrical of all US military installations – not to mention a National Historic Landmark.
This image by Lightningboy2000 brilliantly captures a model Hawker Hurricane crash diorama, set in the Pacific theatre during World War Two.
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