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Southwest Airlines Announces Hawaii, Service To Begin in 2018

Southwest Airlines announced service to Hawaii this evening at their company ‘Spirit Party’. Service will begin in 2018. The airline also announced its intention to launch an application process for Federal…

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4K VIDEO: The Emotional 73rd Commemoration of the Largest Airborne Operation in History

Last month, 17,000 spectators at the Ginkel Heath in Ede, The Netherlands, watched 250 Paratroopers from the United States, England, Poland and Germany jump out of transport aircraft like the…

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Southwest Reveals Special Themed Jet For New Pixar Movie CoCo

Southwest Airlines has done it again! Southwest Airlines partnered with Pixar to promote the new Disney movie titled “CoCo”. “Coco” is a story about an aspiring musician Miguel and charming…

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Train For Combat Like A North Korean Pilot in 5 Easy Steps

Propaganda is used to incite fear or influence an audience towards a certain objective. The best propaganda can strike at the heart of the enemy without firing a single shot.…

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BREAKING: Fire Extinguished Near Cargo Hold of American 777-300ER

American Airlines Flight 192 was cancelled today after a ground support vehicle caught fire near the Boeing 777-300ER. First photos and videos that appeared on social media looked as if…

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KC-135 Deployment Video Makes Tankers Actually Look Kinda Cool

Let’s be honest avgeeks, no one grows up and says “One day, I want to be a tanker pilot”. With frequent deployments in the desert, super-old equipment, and crappy air…

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United 747 Buzzes Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz At Its Last Ever Fleet Week

For years, United Airlines has wowed crowds with a display of “The Queen” at San Francisco’s Fleet Week. Every year, United flies their flagship Boeing 747-400 over the bay to…

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Too much fun! My T-38 Fiasco at Webb AFB, TX back in 1971

On my first T-38 solo, I got into multiple troubles. In one of the maneuvering areas, I decided to do repeated loops, merrily climbing and losing ten thousand feet in…

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Fat Albert C-130 Used To Blast Off On Rocket Assisted Takeoffs

Fat Albert is a unique aircraft. Aircraft like the C-27, C-130s and C-17s will occasionally perform routines at airshows. Fat Albert is the only large transport aircraft on a service-level…

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Listen To This Gorgeous Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat Purr In This 4k Start-Up and Flyby Video

The F8F-2 Bearcat was design by Grumman Ironworks and began production in 1947. The Bearcat served in a total of 24 squadrons for both the United States Navy and Marine…

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Emirates A380 Jet Nearly Loses Directional Control In Windy Landing

We’re pretty sure the maintenance logs asked for replacement of the tires and the pilot’s seat cushion after this A380 landing. They are lucky it wasn’t worse. Landing a “heavy”…

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The Incredible, Indelible Tweety Bird: Cessna’s T-37 Primary Jet Trainer

by James Panter Liquid heat rises in waves, twisting and turning morphing the parked T-37 Tweety Birds into caricatures more like reflections in a fun house than the small jet…

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Southwest Airlines Announces Hawaii, Service To Begin in 2018

4K VIDEO: The Emotional 73rd Commemoration of the Largest Airborne Operation in History

Southwest Reveals Special Themed Jet For New Pixar Movie CoCo

Train For Combat Like A North Korean Pilot in 5 Easy Steps

BREAKING: Fire Extinguished Near Cargo Hold of American 777-300ER

KC-135 Deployment Video Makes Tankers Actually Look Kinda Cool

United 747 Buzzes Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz At Its Last Ever Fleet Week

Too much fun! My T-38 Fiasco at Webb AFB, TX back in 1971

Fat Albert C-130 Used To Blast Off On Rocket Assisted Takeoffs

Listen To This Gorgeous Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat Purr In This 4k Start-Up and Flyby Video

Emirates A380 Jet Nearly Loses Directional Control In Windy Landing

The Incredible, Indelible Tweety Bird: Cessna’s T-37 Primary Jet Trainer

Air Force Flies its Last KC-10

Air Travel Impacts Success of NFL and NBA Teams

Delta and CrowdStrike Serve One Another with Outage Lawsuits