Nice video of Bombardier 415s in action – the only airplane designed from the ground up for fire-fighting.  Via reader and blog friend Simi...

Reader, friend, and former colleague Doug S. passes along this site with beautiful photography.  The photographer is Karim Nafatni, a Duba...

The B-36 “Peacemaker” bomber was an enormous post-WWII strategic bomber – the first designed to carry nuclear weapons.  The design of the...

Very funny story, at least allegedly true, about an exploding toilet on a cargo flight.  An excerpt: He turns and looks at the toilet. But...

It looks likely that giant aeroships will sail the skies again , in the not too distant future...

Here's a morbidly fascinating collection of transcripts (and in some cases, recordings) of the last words from the crews of airplanes th...

This particular B-17 survived a mid-air collision with a German fighter over the docks of Tunis.  Amazingly the pilot managed to land the ...

Reader Simon M. sent me a collection of photos featuring a three-carrier task group and some photos of the F/A-37 Talon (one of them at ri...

Passed along by my mom.  All I can say is “Yikes!”

Popular Mechanics has a great summary of what really happened in the crash of Air France's flight 447 two years ago off the coast of Br...

A mid-air crash a couple years ago took out their only AWACS-capable aircraft.  This clip, apparently taken from a nearby tanker aircraft, c...

Fascinating .  Via reader Dr. Simi L...

Air France Flight 447 went down off the coast of Brazil almost two years ago.  Yesterday robotic submersibles found and recovered the memory...