Insane Hydrofoil-Launched Soviet Space Shuttle Comes to Life With CGI
20 Oct 2023, 15:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Like a SpaceX Falcon 9 with wings, the second-stage rocket plane/booster vehicle was engineered to glide back to Earth after deploying the third-stage shuttle.
Operation Desert Storm: The Greatest Assembly of Military Aircraft of All Time
20 Oct 2023, 03:37 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With the exception of World War II, Desert Storm was unique in its complete and utter domination in the air by the victorious parties.
Allison V-1710: How America's First Muscle Engine Conquered the Skies and the Drag Strip
19 Oct 2023, 20:01 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This is the story of the Allison V-1710. And if the comparison between a WWII aero engine and the in a 60s muscle car, trust us, it'll all make sense in time.
Lockheed Martin's NGI Missile Defense System is Bonkers, Passes "Major Design Milestone"
16 Oct 2023, 16:04 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As the NGI program continues to make leaps and strides in development, an entire network of logistics manufacturing sub-systems stands at the ready.
Blackbird on Steroids: How the Convair Kingfish Was Almost a Better, Faster SR-71
14 Oct 2023, 22:01 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In the timeline where the U.S. Air Force and the CIA picked the Convair Kingfish over Lockheed's A-12/SR-71 program, they would've had an even crazier jet.
B-50 Superfortress: The Cold War U.S. Air Force's Idea of a Hot Rod Bomber
13 Oct 2023, 00:13 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Today, only five of the 370 B-50 airframes produced survive. Including one at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.
Half-Complete Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk is the World's Most Cursed Game of Lego
8 Oct 2023, 18:52 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you're the kind of nut job who can read an entire fighter plane's technical manual and piece together this 1942 P-40N Kitty Hawk, then consider this a gift.
RB-1 Conestoga: A Cargo Plane Built for the Aluminum Apocalypse That Never Happened
6 Oct 2023, 13:05 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Even 80 years after its historic first flight, the sole surviving RB-1's stainless steel body remains relatively free of rust.
Here's Why NASA Chose Prada to Design Spacesuites for Artemis, It's Not What You Think
5 Oct 2023, 15:37 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In truth, what's easy to misidentify as a direct partnership between Prada and NASA is a three-party affair that also involves the Houston-based Axiom Space.
This Focke-Wulf Fw 190A Terrorized Allied Bomber Pilots, Now It's for Sale
2 Oct 2023, 23:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Would you love to fly around all day in a German icon of World War II powered by a freakin Soviet engine? Or would you rather own a Mustang?
Danish Air Force Takes Delivery of Four F-35A Stealth Fighters, Even More on the Way
2 Oct 2023, 14:15 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Over 450 Danish Military personnel and as many as 10,000 locals from around the Jutland Peninsula watched as Lockheed Martin officially transferred ownership.
I Hate to Admit It, But It's Time For the A-10 Warthog to Retire
29 Sep 2023, 16:54 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / To understand why the U.S. Air Force and the Pentagon might be ready to change their attitude towards the A-10, we need to go back to the program's beginning.
This Harrier GR9A Ate Tarmac in Kandahar 14 Years Ago, Now It’s for Sale
26 Sep 2023, 19:03 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The results of when Martin Pert felt the Harrier's wrath have been consolidated and put back together before being put up for sale on Everett Aero.
Culver PQ-14 Cadet: The WWII Target Drone Too Pretty to Shoot Down
25 Sep 2023, 01:57 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It took a little digging to tell the full story behind the PQ-14. But falls back to a little-remembered maverick of aviation's late pioneer era named Al Mooney.
This 80 Percent Scale Supermarine Spitfire Replica Has 100 Percent of the Charm
21 Sep 2023, 19:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / nder the hood of this bird sits a General Motors-Isuzu V6 with an added supercharger to bring the power output up to 252 hp.
50 Years Ago Today, Concorde Made its Triumphant First U.S. Appearance at DFW Airport
20 Sep 2023, 18:22 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Europe's novel supersonic hyper-airliner didn't plant its flag at New York's JFK or Los Angeles' LAX, But rather Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Drag Races Through Coronal Explosion, Lives to Collect Data
20 Sep 2023, 16:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A careful study of the data the Parker Solar Probe collected during the incident seems to comport with a research paper published in 2003.
Pulsar Fusion Wants To Build the World's First Nuclear Fusion Rocket Engine, Is It Legit?
18 Sep 2023, 19:14 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It might be difficult not to write off Pulsar Fusion's operation as little more than weapons-grade ambition. But their founder and CEO seems dead set.
JWST Detects Molecule on Exoplanet That’s Only Made by Life, Is It the Smoking Gun?
18 Sep 2023, 16:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / By non-astrophysicist standards, K2-18 b is a peculiar exoplanet. One roughly 8.6 times the size of Earth by the latest measurements.
NASA Finishes Oxygen Production Experiment on the Surface of Mars: No, It’s Not Alchemy
14 Sep 2023, 16:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Of course, 122 grams of oxygen might not sound like anything impressive. But before you downplay the scale of the achievement, consider this.