Author: Crew Daily
On November 28th, 2018; a brand new Airbus A321neo of the VietJet airline which was headed for ad domestic flight from Ho Chi Minh City airport towards the Buon Ma Thuot Airport in Vietnam lost both of its nose gear landing tires after it suffered from a hard landing. There were 207 passengers and crew members onboard the ship. Out of the 207 passengers, 6 got inured baldy and were immediately taken after evacuation. To evacuate the passengers from the plane, emergency slides were used. After the bad landing incident, emergency services immediately rushed on the scene. Upon landing the…
On November 27thg, 2018 Turkish Airlines banned all of its other cargo flights when they transported the Mosaic art collection which dates able to 2nd Century BC from Chicago to Istanbul. These missing Mosaic masterpieces were recovered from a museum located in Ohio, USA. Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism with extensive pressure was able to retrieve it from the USA and now these masterpieces will be put on a display at the Zeugma Mosaic Museum. Zeugma Mosaic Museum is also the world’s second largest Mosaic museum in the world located in the city of Gaziantep, Turkey. This precious and…
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird still holds the record for the fastest air breathing manned aircraft ever flown. It was retired decades ago and nothing built since has taken the title back. Here is what is actually true about it, and which famous claims are not. Where it came from The Blackbird was designed at Lockheed’s Skunk Works under Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, and first flew on 22 December 1964 with test pilot Bob Gilliland at the controls. The US Air Force retired it in 1998, and NASA flew its remaining examples until 1999. It is worth noting the company name. This…
On 26th November 2018, the InSight Lander from NASA successfully landed on the Red Planet, Mars after completing its seven months long journey from earth to Mars which was almost 300 million miles. The name InSight is the abbreviation for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. Tom Hoffman at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who is also the InSight project manager said to media, “we hit the Martian atmosphere at 124300 mph and the whole time for this sequence which InSight Lander took for touchdown on the surface of Mars was about 6 and a half minutes. During…
In May 2018, the UK’s Channel 5 during the filming of the Royal Navy captured an interesting video of Royal Navy warship HMS Duncan being buzzed by 17 Russian fighter jets in the Black Sea near the coast of Crimea. The video presents several of the Russian Navy’s fighter jets like Su-30SM Flanker derivative and Su-24 Fencer jets passing by the area of the HMS Duncan. These jets which were mix of fighter jets of the Russian Navy were show coming close to the HMS Duncan. The crew members of the vessel were worried that if these jets came any…
US Air Force has recently released the limited information about the new F-35A Demonstration Team for the upcoming 2019 Airshow season. The news was posted officially on the USAF’s Air Combat Command Aerial Events page. In addition to this news, this page also holds the information about the various other Air Combat Command flight demonstration teams which includes the following. F-22 Raptor Demo Team the A-10C Thunderbolt II Demo Team the F-16 “Viper” Demo Team the Heritage Flight Teams Air Force has yet to reveal any specific about the demonstration of the F-35A Demo Team but they have pointed it…
There is one certain plane in the US Army’s possession that it is so unique that it can only be found in one place. The uniqueness of this plane is evident from the fact that the pilots who fly this plane are not allowed to touch it until they are authorized for deployment to a special place. The name of this aircraft is E-11A or also most commonly known as Battlefield Airborne Communications Node or BACN. These aircraft were originally the ultra long range Business Jets that have been modified by the US Air Force to accommodate the BACN’s payload.…
The Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force) has completed its tour of the Middle East with the following displays. The T-346A Master and Eurofighter F-2000A of the 311° Gruppo (Squadron) of the Reparto Sperimentale Volo (RSV – Test Wing) the grand finale with the 10x MB.339A/PAN of the Frecce Tricolori This tour was sponsored by the Leonardo Company which helped to bring these Italian jets to Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait. The reason for this tour was to promote the aerospace capabilities of the Italian Aerospace across the region of Persian Gulf. This is the first time when a T-346 took part…
On June 5th, 2019 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day; a big flyover will be held over the skies of Normandy, France. For this flyover tribute, more than 30 of the Douglas C-47 Skytrain and Dakota transport aircraft will be retracing their flights from Great Britain and flying over the original D-Day Drop Zones in Normandy, France. Furthermore, paratroopers will be released from these aircraft wearing that period’s uniform while operating the World War II style parachutes. This airborne armada with its flight and para-trooping action is going to be a high salute for the Greatest Generation, The…
Back on February 1st, 2013 Iran unveiled its stealth fighter jet’s prototype which was named as “Qaher 313”. The prototype for this stealth aircraft as resented to the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This prototype was also put on a public display on the Ten-Day Dawn ceremonies held in Iran to celebrate the 1979’s victory of the Islamic Revolution. The Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi also made a statement about this aircraft that, “this aircraft is going to be very different from the other fighter jets that Iran has ever made”. The pictures of this aircraft prototype were released…