Russian military plane crashes near Ukraine border02:30 A Russian military transport plane with 15 people on board crashed on Tuesday while taking off from an air base in western Russia, the Defense Ministry said. The crash comes just weeks after the same type of planewent...
History of Crashes in Arizona and the Southwest Newspaper Stories Airfield Collectibles With ideal climate and sparsely populated regions, Arizona and the Southwestern states were used extensively to train Air Force and Navy pilots. The height of training lasted from World War II- 1970's. With the...
Texas, attend to their patient July 10, 2013, prior to take off in the back of a C-17 transport plane. The patient, an Army wife, was the first patient to be flown across the Atlantic while on a specialized lung bypass machine called ECMO. ...
B-2 stealth bomber crashes on Guam A US B-2 stealth bomber - one of the most expensive military aircraft in the world - has crashed at an air base on the Pacific island of Guam. The United States Air Force (USAF) said both pilots had ejected safely before the plane came down at And...
Nachthexen, or “night witches.” Using rickety plywood planes, the women of the 588th flew more than 30,000 missions and dropped more than 23,000 tons of bombs on the Nazis; 30 of them were killed and 24 received the Hero of the Soviet Union medal, the nation’s highest award for ...
However, truly serviceable flight recorders that had any chance of surviving plane crashes were not produced until several years after the war. A series of disastrous crashes of De Havilland Comet jetliners in 1953–54 spurred David Warren, a scientist at Australia’s Aeronautical Research Laboratory...