Historic Photo Shows Wrecked X-15 after 1962 Mud Lake Crash
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.
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Dramatic Video Shows Stunt Plane Breaking-Up in Mid Air, Pilot Miraculously Survives
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.
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1986 Image Shows Crashed F-4 Phantom at Gulfport, Mississippi
This photo shows the aftermath of an incident in1986 at Gulfport, Mississippi, in which an F-4 Phantom sustained damage during an emergency landing and ended up in a field.
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Wrecked B-52 Bombers South of Edwards AFB
Aircraft enthusiasts who frequent Edwards Air Force Base in California will likely be familiar with an NB-52B nicknamed Balls 8. But less well known are two derelict B-52 bombers located south of the dry lake bed.
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Rare Brewster Corsair F3A-1 the Subject of Restoration Efforts
Seen here at AirVenture 2005, Corsair Bu. No. 04634 is a rare example of a surviving F3A-1 variant built by Brewster Aeronautical Corporation and currently subject of an ongoing restoration effort.
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US Set to Lose Hundreds of Planes in Pentagon Budget Cuts
The mighty US Air Force is set to lose around 200 aircraft from its 4,000-strong fleet, in the latest round of Obama administration budget cuts. We assume numbers at “the Boneyard” will once again swell.
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Nottinghamshire’s Infamous A1 Lightning Finally Scrapped
In what has been hailed by many as the end of an era, a derelict English Electric Lightning fighter that had become a landmark to travellers along the A1 road near Balderton in England has finally been scrapped.
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Destroyed MiG-25 in Iraqi Aircraft Graveyard
This MiG-25 is one of numerous fighter planes of the former Iraqi Air Force liberally daubed in graffiti and left to rot in an aircraft graveyard – many of which litter the country’s airbases.
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Images of Kalitta Air Boeing 747 Crash at Brussels, 2008
Thankfully this Kalitta Air Boeing 747 was a freight aircraft rather than a passenger jet. Four crew members and one passenger were unharmed when the Jumbo Jet overran the runway at Brussels Airport, breaking into two pieces.
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Crashed US F-4 Phantom at Hanoi People’s Air Force Museum, Vietnam
The Vietnam War proved an effective way of stocking the People’s Air Force Museum in Hanoi with the most advanced American hardware of the day, like this battered F-4 Phantom which was shot down on May 14, 1967.
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Historic Photo Shows Wrecked X-15 after 1962 Mud Lake Crash
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Dramatic Video Shows Stunt Plane Breaking-Up in Mid Air, Pilot Miraculously Survives
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1986 Image Shows Crashed F-4 Phantom at Gulfport, Mississippi
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Wrecked B-52 Bombers South of Edwards AFB
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Rare Brewster Corsair F3A-1 the Subject of Restoration Efforts
