Author: Crew Daily
On December 6th, 2018, the US Navy paid a tribute to the late George H.W. Bush with a memorial flyover which included the flyover from a massive 21 aircraft fleet. These aircraft flew over the President’s interment ceremony at the Georgia Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station. Navy, on this flyover, said that this was one of a kind and special flyover as far as the services go. This type of the flyover is the largest in the recent history and was done in lieu of the traditional 21 Gun Salute which is used for the heads of…
On January 1st, 2018 the parade goers who were celebrating the New Year at the Tournament of Rose were treated with a magnificent display of the US Air Force’s state of the art airpower. The display was given by the USAF’s two F-35A Lightning IIs and a B-2 Spirit when they made a spectacular flyover of the parade route. This Rose Parade Flyover was given in honor of the USAF Major Benjamin “Chex” Meier, who was the pilot for the USAF F-16 aircraft. He flew in combat missions over countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. He received the Air Force…
US Air Force as officially confirmed to the aviation media that the photographs for the Chinese Chengdu J-20 Mighty Dragon at the military Air Base inside the Savannah-Hilton Head Airport, Georgia, US on last Wednesday; December 5th, 2018 is actually a mock up for training for the US Marine Corps. Col. Emmanuel Haldopoulos, Commander of the Savannah Air Dominance Center wrote in his statement to media, “It is a full scale replica of the aircraft which remained at the Air Dominance Center for a short period in week of 40-6 December. The US Marine Corps is the one who are…
In Russia recently an online pool was taken all across Russia for the renaming of its 47 old airports. This online poll was the part of the Great Names of Russia project. According to this polling Moscow’s gateway international airport Sheremetyevo will now be renamed as the Aleksandr Pushkin International Airport. This name is given after the beloved 19th-century Russian poet named Aleksandr Pushkin. The second main airport of Moscow which is Domodedovo Airport will no e be renamed after the 18-century Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov. As for the third largest airport in Moscow located in Vnukovo, it will be…
A U.S. Navy Blue Angels pilot by the name of Lt. Commander Nate Barton took a selfie from his phone while he was flying the F/A-18 Hornet. Lt. Commander Nate Barton flies with the left wing position with the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels demo team and he was flying with the said team when he took this real-life selfie. Many speculated it to be a screenshot but it is an actual selfie taken by a GoPro Camera. Nate Barton took this selfie from his phone in the cockpit of his F/A 18 Hornet aircraft. Barton, The Blue Angles took this…
Aéroports de Paris Management has the 25 percent shareholder in the Liege Airport has the minority blocking authority and was opposing the signature of the agreement between ‘Alibaba’ and Liege Airport. The French company was trying to save its one of the valuable clients in Paris, the FedEx Express which also uses Liege airport as their base. Now according to latest reports, the difference of opinions have been settled down and Liege Airport apparently signed the deal with Alibaba for which there had been months-long negotiations going on. The decision to choose Liege Airport as the base for Alibaba’s port…
To participate in the largest memorial flyover and missing man formation to honor the passing of the former President George H.W. Bush, US Navy has dispatched almost thirty F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet jets from their various units. The formation flyover will consist of 21 aircraft with 9 aircraft being used for the support role in the mission. The news of this memorial mission was announced by U Navy on Tuesday when the aircraft started to leave from Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia. The ceremony will b held on Thursday, December 6th, 2018 at the George Bush Presidential Library and…
The new President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador on his first day of assuming the position of the Head of State puts the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner TP-01 “José María Morelos y Pavón” of the Fuerza Aèrea Mexicana. The aircraft has been put up for sale at the Benito Juárez International Airport in Mexico City, Mexico. Carlos Urzua, the new Minister of Finance on December 2nd, 2018 called a press conference in the Mexico City and said to the media representatives that they are allowed to observe the Presidential Boeing 787 not only from the outside but also from the…
Back in 1919 the acting Australian Prime Minister William Alexander Watt on behalf of the Prime Minister William “Billy” Hughes, announced that the Commonwealth Government will offer prize money of 10000 pounds for the successful pilot for making a flight to Australia from Great Britain in a time period of 30 days. The prize money of 10000 pounds was won by two pilots named Ross and Keith Smith in their Vickers Vimy G-EAOU who flew in their twin-engine plane and landed in Darwin and receive the local, national and international fame. Now after one hundred years since the first flight…
On 12th March 2018, one of the worst aviation disasters for commercial airlines took place in Kathmandu, Nepal. A Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 registered S2-AGU of the US-Bangla Airlines that was headed from Dhaka to Kathmandu, veered off from its runway while it was landing on the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. The aircraft’s impact upon landing was so fierce and devastating that it shortly caught fire. According to the media reports, the aircraft was 17 years old one of the airlines and it was carrying 67 passengers along with 4 crew members on its flight when it met…