High Flight
Maj. Dean Neeley is in the forward, lower cockpit of the Lockheed U-2ST, a two-place version of the U-2S, a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft that the Air Force calls “Dragon Lady.” […]
Year: 2007
Boeing E-4
The Boeing E-4B Advanced Airborne Command Post, with a project name of “Nightwatch”, is an aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and is specially built to serve as a survivable mobile command post for the National Command Authority (the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense, and successors). […]
Inside Boeing Flight Test & The Doomsday Airplane
It takes thousands of people and thousands of man-hours to build a new type airplane, but the flight test and certification is where the rubber meets the road. […]
How to Hide a Herc
This is a true story. The names have been changed, but the incident occurred almost exactly as recorded here. […]
Bessie Coleman – Aviation Pioneer Lesson Plan
Aviation lesson plan on Bessie Coleman […]
Forty Two Plus Years With The Boeing Company
There is nothing romantic about my getting a job at The Boeing Co. I simply needed a job and they were hiring. I hired in on 15 April 1957 and retired on 1 August 1999. […]
List of surviving B-29 Superfortresses
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a four-engine heavy bomber propeller aircraft flown by the United States Army Air Forces in World War II and other military organizations afterwards. The name “Superfortress” was derived from its well-known predecessor, the B-17 Flying Fortress. […]
F-35 Lightning II Flight Tests
Chief Test Pilot Recounts Early Flights […]
MQ-9 REAPER UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE
The MQ-9 Reaper is a medium-to-high altitude, long endurance remotely piloted aircraft system. The MQ-9’s primary mission is as a persistent hunter-killer against emerging targets in support of joint force commander objectives. […]
General Aviation – An Overview
Perhaps the best way to define general aviation is to begin by listing what it is not. General aviation is not military aviation and it is not scheduled commercial aviation. To a great extent, all other uses of aviation in the United States fall into the category of general aviation. […]