Updated: 2010-04-28 21:37:38
Southwest Airlines recently published this video, featuring the making of “Florida One”. N945WN, a Boeing 737-7H4, wears a special livery representing Southwest Airlines’ ties to the Sunshine State since beginning service in January of 1996. Southwest has been growing from 17 daily nonstop departures to 284 daily nonstop departures and now carries 20 percent of [...]
Updated: 2010-04-28 15:58:20
Hello Folks, I’m in a better mood this week, even though my computer contacted a serious virus and had to go to the shop. It’s back now and I feel better, but there is still some odd stuff I have to replace or learn to live without. No biggie. Geez Folks, the A-20 assembly in [...]
Updated: 2010-04-28 15:58:08
Hi Folks, I’m not in a very good mood today, so rather than bore you with a rant, I say let’s just take our little weekly stroll down History Lane, shall we? Yes, I think we shall.
Tom K.
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25 April 1914
Lieutenant P.N.L. Bellinger makes the first American [...]
Updated: 2010-04-28 15:58:03
The new F-35B STOVL (short takeoff, vertical landing) fighter has hovered in mid-air March 17 as part of its test program. See it on the Lockheed Martin YouTube page here. It is listed on the right side of the page.
Notice all the little doors closing in the “First Vertical Landing” video. (There are three F-35 [...]
Updated: 2010-04-19 21:45:12
Lockheed Martin rolled out the first of a new fleet of HC-130J combat rescue tankers for the U.S. Air Force’s Air Combat Command (ACC)
Lockheed Martin is contracted with the U.S. Air Force to build 21 C 130J Super Hercules to replace aging fleets of combat search and rescue HC-130s and special operations MC 130s. [...]
Updated: 2010-04-10 18:32:00
Some news for our German visitors. Lufthansa’s new flagship, the Airbus A380, will undergo a number of test flights in early June.
Before the first Lufthansa Airbus A380 flies the German soccer team to Johannesburg (South Africa) for the Football World Cup on Sunday, 6 June, Lufthansa will carry out numerous flights. The flights - [...]
Updated: 2010-04-10 12:25:30
Polish President Lech Kaczynski was killed today, when his Tupolev 154M crashed on approach to Smolensk Airport (LNX) (Russia) in poor visibility. Already on the 4th landing attempt, the Polish Air Force flight, bound from Warszawa-Okecie Airport (WAW) (Poland), struck trees and broke up. All 88 people onboard have been killed.
According to aviation-safety.net weather reports [...]
Updated: 2010-04-05 15:05:45
The landing of a Russian Air Force Ilyushin IL-76MD (RA-86863) comes to a sudden end as it touches down late due to strong crosswinds.
According to information on Youtube, this accident already occured on August 09, 2008 at Pskov (PKV/ULOO) (Russia).
Video
via Landingshort
