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Ryan XF2R Dark Shark: The Navy Fighter With Prop and Jet
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (311+ words) by Connor Kerr | Jun 16, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments In 1946, the U.S. Navy flew a fighter that couldn't decide whether it belonged to the propeller age or the jet age — so it used both at once. The Ryan XF2R Dark Shark had…...
Ryan X-13 Vertijet: The Jet That Took Off From a Hook
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (605+ words) by Connor Kerr | Jun 23, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments That was the Ryan X-13 Vertijet, and in 1957 it did something no pure jet had ever done before: it took off vertically, flew like a normal aeroplane, and then came back to…...
USMC Harrier Bows out
11+ hour ago (137+ words) The US Marine Corps said its formal goodbye to the Boeing AV-8B Harrier II during a sundown ceremony on June 3, 2026. Tom Kaminski reports Marine AV-8Bs completely replaced the earlier AV-8A in 1986, and the last A-4Ms followed in 1990. The two-seat TAV-8As continued…...
The X-65: A Jet With No Moving Control Surfaces | Afterburner - MiGFlug's Magazine
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (728+ words) von MiGFlug-Team | 4. April 2026 | Militärische Luftfahrt, Nachricht | 0 Kommentare Every aircraft that has ever flown — from the Wright Flyer to the F-35 — has steered itself by physically moving parts of its body. Ailerons tilt to roll. Elevators deflect to pitch. Rudders swing…...
Robinson R66 Wins the Army's Flight School Next
1+ week, 2+ day ago (555+ words) di Giuseppe Duncan | 16 agosto 2026 | Mondo dell'aviazione, Notizia | 0 commenti The R66 will replace the twin-engine Airbus UH-72 Lakota that has trained Army aviators at Fort Rucker since 2015. And here is the twist that has aviation people talking: a decade ago the Army…...
California Pays You To Sell Power Back From Your EV
3+ hour, 41+ min ago (786+ words) The list of electric vehicles that can double as grid batteries in California just got longer, and Pacific Gas & Electric wants owners to plug in and cash out. The West Coast's largest utility said Monday it is expanding its vehicle-to-everything…...
Ghost Tanker: The KC-135 Behind Every Secret New Warplane
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (99+ words) | |, | 0 comentarios In December 1986 Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager flew the Rutan Voyager around the world nonstop and unrefuelled in nine days, landing with 106 lb of fuel left. Jean Batten flew England to New Zealand alone in 1936, a record that stood…...
XF10F Jaguar: 74 Years Since the First Swing-Wing Flight
6+ hour, 51+ min ago (671+ words) von Connor Kerr | 19. Mai 2026 | Geschichte & Legenden, Militärische Luftfahrt | 0 Kommentare It would fly thirty-two times. Meyer would be the only pilot who ever took it up. By April 1953 the U.S. Navy would have killed the programme, and the two airframes…...
The Swing Wing: From the Bell X-5 to the F-14 Tomcat
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (945+ words) di Connor Kerr | 25 giugno 2026 | Storia e leggende, Aviazione militare | 0 commenti It sounds like a gimmick. It was actually one of the great engineering dreams of the jet age: a single aircraft that could be slow and docile for takeoff, then…...
CH-53K King Stallion: America's Most Powerful Helicopter
4+ hour, 23+ min ago (854+ words) by Max Grünwald | Aug 25, 2026 | Military Aviation | 0 comments In April 2026 the US Navy released a short note with an unusually literal headline: a CH-53K had lifted a CH-53K. One King Stallion picked up another King Stallion and flew away with it....