Descripción: Dassault Mirage 2000 demonstration flight in Russia 2004'.The Mirage 2000 was developed by Dassault-Breguet for the Armée de l'Air as an alternative to the swing-wing Avion de Combat Futur. After the latter was cancelled in 1975 due to its growing cost and complexity, Dassault offered the Mirage 2000 as an alternative. Development of this aircraft would also give the company a competitor to the Ge...

Descripción: The Lockheed SR-71 was an advanced, long-range, Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed YF-12A and A-12 aircraft by the Lockheed Skunk Works. The SR-71 was unofficially named the Blackbird; its crews often called it the Sled, or the Habu ("snake"). The SR-71 line was in service from 1964 to 1998. Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was the man behind many of the design's advanced...

Descripción: (Part 1 of 2) For almost 60 years the B-17 bomber, the Memphis Belle, called Memphis, Tennessee home. In Oct. 2005, The U.S. Air Force removed one of the most famous aircraft in the world from the possession of the City of Memphis because of the lack of public support. This is the story of 60 years of neglect, apathy and disinterest by the City of Memphis to one of it's most important icons. A doc...

Descripción: Five years before Roswell, five years before pilot Kenneth Arnold's landmark sightings of "flying saucers" in the Pacific Northwest, 3 years before the Battle of the Bulge, two years before D-Day, and years before the so-called "modern UFO era" had officially begun, there was the Battle of Los Angeles, arguably the most sensational, dramatic UFO mass encounter on record. Have you ever heard of ...

Descripción: Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas is home to one of the most sophisticated military training facilities in the world. With over 12,000 square miles of airspace, the Nellis Range is home to the famous "Red Flag" training exercises, where over 100 NATO and USAF combat aircraft engage hostile air and ground threats, unrestricted, at supersonic speeds, in a real-world environment, offering pilots i...

Descripción: The Avro Lancaster was a British four-engine Second World War bomber aircraft made initially by Avro for the British Royal Air Force (RAF). It first saw active service in 1942, and together with the Handley-Page Halifax it was one of the main heavy bombers of the RAF, the Royal Canadian Air Force and squadrons from other Commonwealth and European countries serving with RAF Bomber Command. The "Lan...

Descripción: Navy Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron HSC-85 Battles San Diego Fires, October 25, 2007, flying MH-60S Seahawk helicopters. NOTE: See the newest (shorter) version at: http:// youtube.com/watch?v=YGMNRKrOGUo This is the original long version. Filmed by MC3 Dustin Kelling. The song "Birds of Paradise" by Peter, Sue, and Marc. No, they're not Army, but they are my brothers. So this ones for...

Descripción: Britain, like the other combatants, had attempted precision bombing of military targets early in the war. The 1941 British "Butt Report," dealing with the effectiveness of bombing, found that only 30 percent of the bombers arrived within five miles of their targets, and in the Ruhr only 10 percent. Unable to engage in precision bombing, Harris advocated and instituted "area bombing." This techniqu...

Descripción: Of all the components of the Apollo system, the LM, which would eventually be used to land on the Moon, had the most issues. It was behind schedule and when the first model was shipped to Cape Canaveral in June 1968, over 101 separate defects were discovered. Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, which was the lead contractor for the LM predicted that the first mannable LM, to be used for the ...

Descripción: This is a very interesting video clip of footage that I took in 2005 in the crystal-clear air at the Palm Springs Air Museum (Calif.). This condition is what is appropriately termed "severe clear." The clip starts with impressive engine startups of the Planes of Fame Museum's (Chino, Calif.) P-38J and Japanese A6M5 Zero and also the PSAM Grumman Hellcat. The POF Zero is the only one flying ...

Descripción: Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas is home to one of the most sophisticated military training facilities in the world. With over 12,000 square miles of airspace, the Nellis Range is home to the famous "Red Flag" training exercises, where over 100 NATO and USAF combat aircraft engage hostile air and ground threats, unrestricted, at supersonic speeds, in a real-world environment, offering pilots i...

Descripción: Russia has unveiled the MiG-35 at an Indian air show Aero India 2007 in Bangalore, amid Moscow's keen interest to sell these planes to India. It was reported that the MIG 35 made it to Bangalore from Moscow, in under three hours, with as many mid air refuellings on the way, flying at supersonic speeds. The MiG-35 is considered to be a serious contender to the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, Dassault Ra...

Descripción: Concorde Concorde supersonic transport (SST) was one of only two models of supersonic passenger aircraft to have seen commercial service. It was built by Sud-Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation, and assembled at Toulouse. The white bird made its first flight on March 02nd, 1969. cvr: AFR 4590 is the Concord flight number. 13 :58 (AFR 4590) - Concorde for New York in Echo 26, we w...

Descripción: Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas is home to one of the most sophisticated military training facilities in the world. With over 12,000 square miles of airspace, the Nellis Range is home to the famous "Red Flag" training exercises, where over 100 NATO and USAF combat aircraft engage hostile air and ground threats, unrestricted, at supersonic speeds, in a real-world environment, offering pilots i...

Descripción: In 1912, a group of Kingdom of Serbia officers were sent abroad to school- to a Pilot Training Program in France. At the same time aircraft were purchased and by the Act of the Minister of War Marshal Radomir Putnik, on 24 September 1912 an Air Force Command was established in Niš. This places Serbia as one the first 15 states in the world to have had military air force at those times. A year late...

Descripción: In(mostly military) aircraft, the ejection seat is a system designed to rescue the pilot or other crew in an emergency. In most designs, the seat is propelled out of the aircraft by an explosive charge or rocket motor, carrying the pilot with it. The concept of an ejectable escape capsule has also been tried. Once clear of the aircraft, the ejection seat deploys a parachute, and descends safely to...

Descripción: air crash investigation/ Mayday Hidden Danger part 1 United Airlines Flight 585 USAir Flight 427 Eastwinds Flight 517 UA 585: March 3, 1991 USAir 427: September 8, 1994 EA 517: June 9, 1996 UA 585: Boeing 737-200 USAir 427: Boeing 737-300 EA 517: Boeing 737-200 The rudder fails on a Boeing 737 operating as United Airlines Flight 585 and the aircraft spins out of control during approac...

Descripción: The Lockheed SR-71 was an advanced, long-range, Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed YF-12A and A-12 aircraft by the Lockheed Skunk Works. The SR-71 was unofficially named the Blackbird; its crews often called it the Sled, or the Habu ("snake"). The SR-71 line was in service from 1964 to 1998. Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was the man behind many of the design's advanced...

Descripción: n a joint research program that NASA conducted with the Air Force, the Navy, and North American Aviation, Inc., the X-15 experimental aircraft set the world's unofficial speed and altitude records for crewed flight. Information from the highly successful program contributed to the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle piloted space flight programs. The outer skin of the X-15 was a nickel-chr...

Descripción: USAF Thunderbirds Aerial Performance 2008 McGuire AFB Open House & Air Expo McGuire AFB, New Jersey Sunday June 1, 2008 IN THIS VIDEO, watch as the Thunderbirds manage to somehow fly a high show performance over McGuire AFB. In discussions with Thunderbird #9, we both concluded that Sunday's performance was going to be a low show, but right as the team took to the sky, a very nice hole o...