You're looking at a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft being refueled by the 151st Air Refueling Wing over southern Idaho last week. But those are just details. What you're really looking at is a shock of beautiful, caught at a moment of technological awesomeness. [Flickr] Read More >>
Featured comment by Spazturtle:
""Moreover, it was huge improvement over those last two failures."
You mean the last two times they successfully learned how not to fly a scramjet." More »
In 1950, the United States Air Force had a new bomber called the B-58 Hustler, the first to go Mach 2. Naturally they wanted to include ejector seats to allow pilots a chance to bail out, but first they had to do a lot of testing, and they did it with bears. Bears on drugs. Read More >>
Featured comment by lancsDavid:
"if they hadn't dissected them afterwards it would've made a helluva story to tell the other bears around a camp fire
(on a more serious note what a..." More »
Around the clock, satellites are snapping and re-snapping the Earth's surface from space. Also around the clock, weaponised killer drones are making the rounds—and it looks like the two just had a chance encounter. Read More >>
This is completely terrifying. These guys were probably about one second from blowing up in a jet fuel fireball, but they managed to eject with only a hair standing between them and oblivion. Barely. Read More >>
Featured comment by irononreverse:
"Noooo maaaan, it was TOTALLY relavent maaaan. Cos it was, like a metaphor maaan, ON the internet! Biddle saaaays sooo." More »
The government might still be keeping aliens from us, but they're no longer keeping this schematics of a supersonic flying saucer the Air Force was considering trying to build back in the 1950s. Meet Project 1794. Read More >>
Featured comment by Mack:
"My grandfather was chief engineer at an aeronautical firm in the UK in the 50's, and frequently worked in the USA. He was asked to review designs like..." More »
No, that's not a scene from The Right Stuff. It's 14 pilots of the ultra-high-tech Lockheed U-2 in full pressure suits posing like action heroes in front of their beautiful plane. Eat it, Ed Harris. Read More >>
Featured comment by symbonic:
"Yeeah Boy... ok nice to know thanks oh my god i'd love to sit indide a B-2 now that would be cool, i'd really like to go Area 51 for a week camp somew..." More »
Featured comment by Aevolve:
"Perhaps it's a coverup, what really went wrong was the super secret Vertical Engagement Strategic Targeting System, V.E.S.T.S." More »
Col. Hassan Hamada of the Syrian air force decided to fly out of Syria and land in a Jordanian airbase instead of going home on Thursday. The airman made his stylish escape yesterday without a hitch in his MiG-21, and is now an official rebel forces hero. Read More >>
Featured comment by TankBoyBen:
"the fail is that you know too much and nobody else noticed or cares if the library picture is that accurate, my worlds still turning!" More »
I hope you're not as easily fooled as I am because I totally missed the two F-16s in this picture. I have an excuse! I was totally looking at the left hand side of the picture. And the picture I saw was really small! Like thumbnail-sized! Read More >>
Featured comment by Hyperstate:
"This has led me to wonder what the feasability is of creating 'see-through' planes.... ie coating the exterior in thousands of tiny displays intersper..." More »
Have you heard? The war in Iraq is over! Pretty much. The humans are out — but the big robot eyes in the sky are going to stick around. Hey — here's a perfectly symbolic video! Read More >>
Featured comment by I Spy with My Little Eye – Pentagon drones flying domestically and invading your privacy! « The Alliance for an "Idiot-Free" America:
"[...] A Predator Drone Watches America Exit Iraq from Above (gizmodo.co.uk) [...]" More »
Remember when the Pentagon let the F-35 start flying again, even though its underlying defects hadn't been fixed? They just did literally the exact same thing with the F-22 Raptor. Hope you're not worried about oxygen deprivation. Read More >>
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